Limits of solutions of p-laplace equations as p goes to infinity and related variational problems

We show that the convergence, as p --> infinity, of the solution u(p) of the Dirichlet problem for -Delta p(u)(x) = f(x) in a bounded domain Omega subset of R-n with zero-Dirichlet boundary condition and with continuous f in the following cases: (i) one-dimensional case, radial cases; (ii) the case of no balanced family; and (iii) two cases with vanishing integral. We also give some properties of the maximizers for the functional integral(Omega) f(x)v(x) dx in the space of functions v is an element of C((Omega) over bar) boolean AND W-1,W-infinity (Omega) satisfying v\(theta Omega) = 0 and parallel to Dv parallel to(L infinity(Omega)) <= 1.