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We investigate the non-homogeneous modular Dirichlet problem Δ p (·)u(x) = f (x) (where Δ p (·)u(x) = div(|∇u|p(x-2)∇u(x)) from the functional analytic point of view and we prove the stability of the solutions \({\left( {{u_{{p_i}}}} \right)_i}\) of the equation \({\Delta _{{p_i}\left( \cdot \right)}}{u_{{p_i}\left( \cdot \right)}} = f\) as p i (·) → q(·) via Gamma-convergence of sequence of appropriate functionals.
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Lang, J., Méndez, O. Γ-convergence of the energy functionals for the variable exponent p(·)-Laplacian and stability of the minimizers with respect to integrability. JAMA 134, 575–596 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11854-018-0018-y
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