@article {2019,
	title = {On the square distance function from a manifold with boundary},
	year = {2019},
	abstract = {<p>We characterize arbitrary codimensional smooth manifolds $\mathcal{M}$ with boundary embedded in $\mathbb{R}^n$ using the square distance function and the signed distance function from $\mathcal{M}$ and from its boundary. The results are localized in an open set.</p>},
	url = {http://cvgmt.sns.it/media/doc/paper/4260/manif_with_bound_dist.pdf},
	author = {Giovanni Bellettini and Alaa Elshorbagy}
}
@article {2015,
	title = {Semicartesian surfaces and  the relaxed area of  maps  from the plane to the plane with a line discontinuity},
	year = {2015},
	note = {The preprint is compsed of 37 pages and is recorded in PDF format},
	abstract = {<p>We address the problem of estimating the area of the graph of a map u, defined on a bounded planar domain O and taking values in the plane, jumping on a segment J, either compactly contained in O or having both the end points on the boundary of O. We define the relaxation of the area functional w.r.t. a sort of uniform convergence, and we characterize it in terms of the infimum of the area among those surfaces in the space spanning the graphs of the traces of u on the two side of J and having what we have called a semicartesian structure. We exhibit examples showing that the relaxed area functional w.r.t the L^1 convergence may depend also on the values of u far from J, and on the relative position of J w.r.t. the boundary of O; these examples confirm the non-local behaviour of the L^1 relaxed area functional, and justify the interest in studying the relaxation w.r.t. a stronger convergence. We prove also that the L^1 relaxed area functional in non-subadditive for a rather class of maps.</p>},
	url = {http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/34483},
	author = {Lucia Tealdi and Giovanni Bellettini and Maurizio Paolini}
}
@article {1995,
	title = {Special functions of bounded deformation},
	number = {SISSA;76/95/M},
	year = {1995},
	publisher = {SISSA Library},
	url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/978},
	author = {Giovanni Bellettini and Alessandra Coscia and Gianni Dal Maso}
}
