Limit as \(p\to \infty \) of \(p\)-Laplace eigenvalue problems and \(L^\infty \)-inequality of the Poincaré type. (Q1854067)

The paper deals with asymptotic behavior as \(p\to \infty \) of eigenvalues \(\lambda ^{(k)}_p\) and normalized eigenfunctions \(u^{(k)}_p\) of the \(p\)-Laplace operator \(\Delta _pu=\text{div}(| \nabla u| ^{p-2}\nabla u)\) on a bounded domain with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The results can be divided into two groups: (I) a convergence of the first eigenvalue \((\lambda ^{(1)}_p)^{1/p}\) to a distance function and an \(L^\infty \)-inequality of the Poincaré type \( | u | _\infty \leq c_\infty (\Omega ) | \nabla u | _\infty \) with the best constant \(c_\infty (\Omega )\) attained by the limit of eigenfunctions \(u^{(1)}_p\), (II) formulation of a problem whose solutions \(\Lambda ^{(k)}_\infty \) and \(u_\infty ^{(k)}\) in the viscosity sense are the limits of eigenvalues \((\lambda _p^{(k)})^{1/p}\) and the limits of eigenfunctions \(u_p^{(k)}\) as \(p\to \infty \), i.e. a limit eigenvalue problem.