TY - JOUR T1 - On a notion of unilateral slope for the Mumford-Shah functional JF - NoDEA 13 (2007) 713-734 Y1 - 2007 A1 - Gianni Dal Maso A1 - Rodica Toader AB - In this paper we introduce a notion of unilateral slope for the Mumford-Shah functional, and provide an explicit formula in the case of smooth cracks. We show that the slope is not lower semicontinuous and study the corresponding relaxed functional. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2059 U1 - 2137 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER -