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Mosco-convergence of convex sets and unilateral problems for differential operators with lower order terms having natural growth

Analysis of PDEs 2025-05-12 v1

Abstract

We study the stability of solutions to a class of variational inequalities posed on obstacle-type convex sets, under Mosco-convergence. More precisely, for a fixed obstacle ψW01,p(Ω)L(Ω)\psi\in W_{0}^{1,p}(\Omega)\cap L^{\infty}(\Omega), we consider uW01,p(Ω)L(Ω)u\in W_{0}^{1,p}(\Omega)\cap L^{\infty}(\Omega) satisfying uψu\geq\psi a.e. and A(u),vu+ΩH(x,u,u)(vu)0 \langle A(u),v-u\rangle+\int_{\Omega}H(x,u,\nabla u)(v-u)\geq 0 for all vW01,p(Ω)L(Ω)v\in W_{0}^{1,p}(\Omega)\cap L^{\infty}(\Omega) with vψv\geq\psi. Here, AA is a Leray-Lions type operator, mapping W01,p(Ω)W_0^{1,p}(\Omega) into its dual W1,p(Ω)W^{-1, p'}(\Omega), while H(x,u,Du)H(x, u, D u) grows like Dup|D u|^p. Our main result establishes that the solutions are stable under Mosco-convergence of the constraint sets. This extends classical stability results to natural growth problems.

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@article{arxiv.2505.05899,
  title  = {Mosco-convergence of convex sets and unilateral problems for differential operators with lower order terms having natural growth},
  author = {Lucio Boccardo and Maria Antonietta Palladino and Marco Picerni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.05899},
  year   = {2025}
}