Optimal approximations by piecewise smooth functions and associated variational problems

1989/07/01 by David Mumford, Jayant Shah · 5,199 citations
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paper · open access · doi:10.1002/cpa.3160420503

published in Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics 42(5), 577-685 (Wiley)

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