The Gelfand problem for the Infinity Laplacian

Fernando Charro; Byungjae Son; Peiyong Wang; Fernando Charro; Byungjae Son; Peiyong Wang

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The Gelfand problem for the Infinity Laplacian

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Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, 656 W. Kirby St., Detroit, MI 48202, USA
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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA

Received: 10 December 2021 Revised: 21 February 2022 Accepted: 22 February 2022 Published: 11 April 2022

We study the asymptotic behavior as $p\to\infty$ of the Gelfand problem

$\begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{aligned} -&\Delta_{p} u = \lambda\,e^{u}&& \text{in}\ \Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n\\ &u = 0 && \text{on}\ \partial\Omega. \end{aligned} \right. \end{equation*}$

Under an appropriate rescaling on $u$ and $\lambda$ , we prove uniform convergence of solutions of the Gelfand problem to solutions of

$\left\{ \begin{aligned} &\min\left\{|\nabla{}u|-\Lambda\,e^{u}, -\Delta_{\infty}u\right\} = 0&& \text{in}\ \Omega,\\ &u = 0\ &&\text{on}\ \partial\Omega. \end{aligned} \right.$

We discuss existence, non-existence, and multiplicity of solutions of the limit problem in terms of $\Lambda$ .

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Citation: Fernando Charro, Byungjae Son, Peiyong Wang. The Gelfand problem for the Infinity Laplacian[J]. Mathematics in Engineering, 2023, 5(2): 1-28. doi: 10.3934/mine.2023022

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Abstract

We study the asymptotic behavior as $p\to\infty$ of the Gelfand problem

$\begin{equation*} \left\{ \begin{aligned} -&\Delta_{p} u = \lambda\,e^{u}&& \text{in}\ \Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n\\ &u = 0 && \text{on}\ \partial\Omega. \end{aligned} \right. \end{equation*}$

Under an appropriate rescaling on $u$ and $\lambda$ , we prove uniform convergence of solutions of the Gelfand problem to solutions of

$\left\{ \begin{aligned} &\min\left\{|\nabla{}u|-\Lambda\,e^{u}, -\Delta_{\infty}u\right\} = 0&& \text{in}\ \Omega,\\ &u = 0\ &&\text{on}\ \partial\Omega. \end{aligned} \right.$

We discuss existence, non-existence, and multiplicity of solutions of the limit problem in terms of $\Lambda$ .

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