“…Remark 3.1. Using the density of W 1,1 in BV with respect to area-strict convergence ( •strict convergence) 4 , together with the associated variant of Reshetnyak's continuity theo-rem ([12, Theorem 5] and, more general, [19,Theorem 1]), all our variants of quasi-sublinear growth from below have equivalent versions extending the class of test functions from W 1,1 to BV. Most importantly for our purposes, (3.2) is equivalent to the following:…”