A stability result for nonlinear Neumann problems under boundary variations

DOI10.1016/S0021-7824(03)00014-XMaRDI QIDQ1408902zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. Dal Maso, Marcello Ponsiglione, François Bille Ebobisse

Publication date 25 September 2003

Published in Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées. Neuvième Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0206215

boundary value problems Hausdorff metric Mosco convergence nonlinear elliptic equations

Connections of harmonic functions with differential equations in higher dimensions (31B35) Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Nonlinear boundary value problems for linear elliptic equations (35J65) General (adjoints, conjugates, products, inverses, domains, ranges, etc.) (47A05)

Abstract: In this paper we study, in dimension two, the stability of the solutions of some nonlinear elliptic equations with Neumann boundary conditions, under perturbations of the domains in the Hausdorff complementary topology.

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The authors consider a stability problem for the nonlinear elliptic systems with the Neumann boundary conditions: \[ \begin{cases} -\text{*div}a( x,\nabla u) +b( x,u) =0 &\text{ in } \Omega,\\ a( x,\nabla u) \cdot\nu=0 &\text{ on } \partial\Omega, \end{cases} \] \[ \begin{cases} -\text{*div}a( x,\nabla u) =0 &\text{ in } \Omega,\\ a( x,\nabla u) \cdot\nu=0 &\text{ on } \partial\Omega, \end{cases} \] where \(\Omega\subseteq\mathbb{R}^{2}\) is an arbitrary set, \(\nu\) denotes the outward unit normal to \(\partial\Omega;\) and \(a:\mathbb{R}^{2}\times \mathbb{R}^{2}\to\mathbb{R}^{2}\) and \(b:\mathbb{R}^{2}\times \mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}^{2}\) are Carathéodory functions that satisfy certain growth conditions. The set \(\Omega\) is said to be stable for the Neumann problems (1) along the sequence \(( \Omega_{h}) \) iff \(( u_{h}1_{\Omega_{h} }) \) converges to \(u1_{\Omega}\) strongly in \(L^{p}( \mathbb{R}^{2},\mathbb{R}) \) and \(( \nabla u_{h}1_{\Omega_{h} }) \) converges to \(\nabla u1_{\Omega}\) strongly in \(L^{p}( \mathbb{R}^{2},\mathbb{R}^{2}) \) where \(1_{\Omega}\) denotes the characteristic function of \(\Omega.\) The main result of the paper is the following {Theorem}. Let \(\Omega_{h}\) and \(\Omega\) be open subsets of \(\mathbb{R}^{2}.\) Then \(\Omega\) is stable for the Neumann problems (1) along the sequence \(( \Omega_{h}) \) iff \(( X_{\Omega_{h}}) \) converges to \(X_{\Omega}\) in the sense of Mosco, where \[ X_{\Omega}:=\{ ( u1_{\Omega},\nabla u1_{\Omega}) :u\in W^{1,p}( \Omega) \} . \] Similar theorems hold for (2) and for the problem with the Dirichlet boundary data. The research methods and results of the paper are interesting to apply to the optimization and numerical approximation of the systems of the form (1) and (2).

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