Nonlinear and non-coercive elliptic problems with integrable data

Abstract

In this paper we study existence and uniqueness of renormalized solution to the following problem $\lambda (x,u) -div a(x,Du) +\Phi (x,u)) =f$ with $f$ in $L^1$ and with Dirichlet-Neumann boundary condition. The main difficulty in this task is that in general the operator entering in the above equation is not coercive in a Sobolev space. Moreover, the possible degenerate character of $\lambda$ with respect to $u$ renders more complex the proof of uniqueness for integrable data $f$.