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Curvature penalization of strongly anisotropic interfaces models and their phase-field approximation

Jean-François Babadjian·Blanche Buet·Michael Goldman
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This paper studies the effect of anisotropy on sharp or diffuse interfaces models. When the surface tension is a convex function of the normal to the interface, the anisotropy is said to be weak. This usually ensures the lower semicontinuity of the associated energy. If, however, the surface tension depends on the normal in a nonconvex way, this so-called strong anisotropy may lead to instabilities related to the lack of lower semicontinuity of the functional. We investigate the regularizing effects of adding a higher order term of Willmore type to the energy. We consider two types of problems. The first one is an anisotropic nonconvex generalization of the perimeter, and the second one is an anisotropic nonconvex Mumford-Shah functional. In both cases, lower semicontinuity properties of the energies with respect to a natural mode of convergence are established, as well as $Γ$-convergence type results by means of a phase field approximation. In comparison with related results for curvature dependent energies, one of the original aspects of our work is that, in the context of free discontinuity problems, we are able to consider singular structures such as crack-tips or multiple junctions.

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Jean-François Babadjian, Blanche Buet, Michael Goldman. 2025-10-15. Curvature penalization of strongly anisotropic interfaces models and their phase-field approximation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13275

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