# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

January  2013, 12(1): 253-267. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.253

## Behaviour of $p$--Laplacian problems with Neumann boundary conditions when $p$ goes to 1

 1 Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni "R. Caccioppoli", Universitá di Napoli "Federico II", via Cintia, I-80126 Napoli 2 Departamento de Análisis Matemático, Universidad de Alicante, Ap. correos 99, 03080 Alicante 3 Departament d'Anàlisi Matemàtica, Universitat de València, Dr. Moliner 50, 46100 Burjassot, València, Spain 4 Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni “R. Caccioppoli”, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Complesso Universitario Monte S. Angelo, via Cintia, 80126 Napoli

Received  June 2011 Revised  August 2011 Published  September 2012

We consider the solution $u_p$ to the Neumann problem for the $p$--Laplacian equation with the normal component of the flux across the boundary given by $g\in L^\infty(\partial\Omega)$. We study the behaviour of $u_p$ as $p$ goes to $1$ showing that they converge to a measurable function $u$ and the gradients $|\nabla u_p|^{p-2}\nabla u_p$ converge to a vector field $z$. We prove that $z$ is bounded and that the properties of $u$ depend on the size of $g$ measured in a suitable norm: if $g$ is small enough, then $u$ is a function of bounded variation (it vanishes on the whole domain, when $g$ is very small) while if $g$ is large enough, then $u$ takes the value $\infty$ on a set of positive measure. We also prove that in the first case, $u$ is a solution to a limit problem that involves the $1-$Laplacian. Finally, explicit examples are shown.
Citation: Anna Mercaldo, Julio D. Rossi, Sergio Segura de León, Cristina Trombetti. Behaviour of $p$--Laplacian problems with Neumann boundary conditions when $p$ goes to 1. Communications on Pure & Applied Analysis, 2013, 12 (1) : 253-267. doi: 10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.253
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