Some qualitative properties for the total variation flow (Q1604556)

Let \(\Omega\) be a bounded set in \(\mathbb{R}^N\) with Lipschitz continuous boundary \(\partial\Omega\). The authors are interested both in some qualitative properties of the solution \(P_D\) of the Dirichlet problem \[ \begin{aligned} \frac{\partial u}{\partial t}=\text{div}\left(\frac{Du}{| Du|}\right)\quad &\text{in }Q=(0,\infty)\times\Omega\\ u(t,x)=0 \quad &\text{on }S=(0,\infty)\times\partial\Omega\tag{1}\\ u(0,x)=u_0(x) \quad &\text{in }x\in\Omega\end{aligned} \] and of the Neumann problem corresponding to (1). The aim of this paper is to describe the behaviour of solutions \(P_D\) and \(P_N\) (by \(P_N\) (1) with Neumann boundary condition are denoted) near the extinction time. The authors prove that extinction time is finite and the behavior of solution is described by a function that is a solution of an eigenvalue problem for the operator \(-\text{div}(\frac{Du}{| Du|})\).