A note on the Hausdorff dimension of the singular set for minimizers of the Mumford-Shah energy

We give a more elementary proof of a result by Ambrosio, Fusco and Hutchin- son to estimate the Hausdorff dimension of the singular set of minimizers of the Mumford– Shah energy (see [1, Theorem 5.6]). On the one hand, we follow the strategy of the above mentioned paper; but on the other hand our analysis greatly simplifies the argument since it relies on the compactness result proved by the first two authors in [4, Theorem 13] for sequences of local minimizers with vanishing gradient energy, and the regularity theory of minimal Caccioppoli partitions, rather than on the corresponding results for Almgren’s area minimizing sets.