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In this paper, we mainly consider the limit behavior of a weak solution \(u_{p}\) as \(p\rightarrow 1\), of the Dirichlet or Neumann problem for a weighted \((1,\infty )\ni p\)-Laplace equation on a Lipschitz domain, thereby giving an application of the standard weighted 1-Laplace operator to the image denoising.
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Appendix A
Appendix A
This appendix is a weighted version of the Appendix in [34].
1.1 A.1. The Pairing \((z,\nabla u)\) and the Gauss-Green Formula
We first recall some notions and notation from [34, Appendix A.1]. Let \(u\in BV(\Omega )\cap L^{\infty }(\Omega )\) & \(z\in {{\mathcal {D}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}^\infty (\Omega )\). Setting \(\mu :=\textrm{div}(z)\), the distribution \((z,\nabla u)\) is defined by
The following Gauss-Green’s formula is taken from [5, Proposition 1.3].
Theorem A.1
Let \(z\in {{\mathcal {D}}}{{\mathcal {M}}}^\infty (\Omega )\), \(u\in BV(\Omega )\cap L^{\infty }(\Omega )\) & \(\mu =\textrm{div}(z)\). Then
1.2 A.2 The Measures \((wz_k,\nabla T_k(u))\) & \((wz_k,\nabla 1_{\{|u|>k\}})\)
In this subsection, following some ideas from [34, Appendix A.2], we investigate the properties of the distributions in (1.13), (1.14) and (3.12).
Proposition A.2
The distribution \((wz,\nabla T_k(u))\) in (3.12) is a Radon measure.
Proof
Let \(u_p\) be the renormalized solution to problem (1.1). By some arguments used in Step 5 of the proof of Theorem 1.15, we obtain
Letting \(p\rightarrow 1\) in the above equation, we conclude
Moreover, we notice that
which implies
as desired. \(\square \)
Remark A.3
In the same way, we may define the distribution \((wz,\nabla h(u))\) for any Lipschitz function h on \({{\mathbb {R}}}\) such that the support of its derivative is compact, namely, for any \(\phi \in C_c^\infty (\Omega )\),
Following the proof of Proposition A.2, we know that \((z,\nabla h(u))\) is a Radon measure, which implies that, for any \(k\in (0,\infty )\) & \(\eta \in [0,\infty )\),
are Radon measures satisfying
respectively.
Proposition A.4
The Radon measures
are, respectively, concentrated on the sets
In particular, when \(\eta =0\), the Radon measure \((wz,\nabla T_k(u))\) is concentrated on the set \(\{|u|\le k\}\).
Proof
Due to the similarity, we only prove that \((wz,\nabla T_k(u-T_\eta (u))^+)\) is concentrated on the set \(\{\eta \le u\le k+\eta \}\). To this end, it suffices to show that, for any open set \(U\Subset \Omega \) (namely, \(\overline{U}\) is compact in \(\Omega \)),
Fix \(U\Subset \Omega \) and denote by \(\{\rho _m\}_{m\in {{\mathbb {N}}}}\) a sequence of mollifiers. Define
Then
By the result [5, Corollary 1.6], we obtain
which, combined with the fact that
further shows
Similarly, we have
Moreover, we observe that, for any \(\phi \in C_c^\infty (U)\),
which, together with the fact that
implies
From this and the fact that
we deduce that, for large m,
Furthermore, by (A.2) and (A.3), we know that, when \(m\rightarrow \infty \),
Thus,
as desired. \(\square \)
Corollary A.5
For any \(\epsilon \in (0,\infty )\), the Radon measures
are, respectively, concentrated on the sets
Proposition A.6
Let \((wz,\nabla 1_{\{u>k\}})\) & \((wz,\nabla 1_{\{-u>k\}})\) be the Radon measures defined in (3.10) and (3.11), respectively. Then, for any \(\phi \in C_c^\infty (\Omega )\),
Moreover,
are, respectively, concentrated on
As a consequence, the Radon measure
Proof
Let \(\phi \in C_c^\infty (\Omega )\) and let \(u_p\) be the renormalized solution to the problem (1.12). From some arguments used in Step 4 of the proof of Theorem 1.15, we deduce
Letting \(p\rightarrow 1\) and \(\epsilon \rightarrow 0\) in (A.5), we have
and
By this and (A.6), we obtain
which, combined with Corollary A.5, implies that the measure \((wz,\nabla 1_{\{u>k\}})\) is concentrated on the set
Similarly, we can also obtain the desired result for the measure \((wz,\nabla {\textbf {1}}_{\{-u>k\}})\).
As a consequence of
(A.4) holds. \(\square \)
1.3 A.3 Weighted Weak Trace on \(\partial \Omega \) of the Normal Component of z
In this subsection, we define \([wz,\nu ]\), which is called the weighted weak trace on \(\partial \Omega \) of the normal component of z. Recall that
Let \(v\in W_w^{1-\frac{1}{q},q}(\partial \Omega )\cap L^\infty (\partial \Omega )\) for some \(q>N\). Then there exists
such that \(V\mid _{\partial \Omega }=v\).
Proposition A.7
Define
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(i)
The value \(\langle wz,v\rangle _{\partial \Omega }\) defined in (A.7) is independent of the choice of the function V;
-
(ii)
for any \(q\in (N,\infty )\), the linear map \(\langle wz,\cdot \rangle _{\partial \Omega }\) on
$$\begin{aligned} W_w^{1-\frac{1}{q},q}(\partial \Omega )\cap L^\infty (\partial \Omega )\quad \mathrm{is\ continuous\ in\ \ } W_w^{1-\frac{1}{q},q}(\partial \Omega ). \end{aligned}$$
We write
instead of \(\langle wz,v\rangle _{\partial \Omega }\).
Now we define
It is easy to verify that
hold in the sense of distributions, where, for any \(\phi \in C_c^\infty (\Omega )\),
are similar to define.
Then we may write
and
Moreover, we have, for any
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Fu, X., Xiao, J. & Xiong, Q. Dirichlet or Neumann Problem for Weighted 1-Laplace Equation with Application to Image Denoising. J Geom Anal 34, 32 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-023-01483-8
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Keywords
- Weighted 1-Laplace equation
- Weighted p-Laplace equation
- Dirichlet problem
- Neumann problem
- Image denoising