This paper is the first part of an ongoing project aimed at providing a local minimality criterion, based on a second variation approach, for the triple point configurations of the Mumford-Shah functional.

We prove an ε-regularity theorem at the endpoint of connected arcs for 2-dimensional Mumford-Shah minimizers. In particular we show that, if in a given ball Br(x) the jump set of a given MumfordShah minimizer is sufficiently close, in the Hausdorff distance, to a radius of Br(x), then in a smaller ball the jump set is a connected arc which terminates at some interior point y0 and it is C 1,α up...

We prove higher integrability for the gradient of local minimizers of the Mumford-Shah energy functional, providing a positive answer to a conjecture of De Giorgi [5].

We propose a variational approach for deblurring and impulsive noise removal in multi-channel images. A robust data fidelity measure and edge preserving regularization are employed. We consider several regularization approaches, such as Beltrami flow, Mumford-Shah and Total-Variation Mumford-Shah. The latter two methods are extended to multi-channel images and reformulated using the Γ -converge...

We prove that a certain series defines a constant function using Wolpert’s formula for the variation of the length of a geodesic along a Fenchel Nielsen twist. Subsequently we determine the value viewing it as function on the the Deligne Mumford compactification M1,1 and evaluating it at the stable curve at infinity. Conventions: 1. For γ an essential closed curve on a surface lγ(x) is the leng...