Monge–Ampère foliations for degenerate solutions

We study the problem of the existence and the holomorphicity of the Monge–Ampère foliation associated to a plurisubharmonic solutions of the complex homogeneous Monge–Ampère equation even at points of arbitrary degeneracy. We obtain good results for real analytic unbounded solutions. As a consequence we also provide a positive answer to a question of Burns on homogeneous polynomials whose logarithm satisfies the complex Monge–Ampère equation and we obtain a generalization the work of Wong on the classification of complete weighted circular domains.     

An inequality for mixed Monge–Ampère measures

We generalize an inequality for mixed Monge–Ampère measures from Kołodziej (Indiana Univ. Math. J. 43, 1321–1338, 1994). We also give an example that shows that our assumptions are sharp. The corresponding result in the setting of compact K?hler manifold is also discussed.     

Dirichlet problem of quaternionic Monge–Ampère equations

In this paper, the author studies quaternionic Monge–Ampère equations and obtains the existence and uniqueness of the solutions to the Dirichlet problem for such equations without any restriction on domains. Our paper aims to answer the question proposed by Semyon Alesker in [3]. It also extends relevant results in [8] to the quaternionic vector space.     

Maximum principles and isoperimetric inequalities for some Monge–Ampère-type problems

In this note we derive a maximum principle for an appropriate functional combination of u(x)$u(\mathbf{x})$ and |∇u|²${|\mathrm{\nabla }u|}^2$, where u(x)$u(\mathbf{x})$ is a strictly convex classical solution to a general class of Monge–Ampère equations. This maximum principle is then employed to establish some isoperimetric inequalities of interest in the theory of surfaces of constant Gauss curvature in R^N+1${\mathbb{R}}^{N+1}$.     

Smooth solutions to a class of mixed type Monge–Ampère equations

We prove the existence of C ^∞ local solutions to a class of mixed type Monge–Ampère equations in the plane. More precisely, the equation changes type to finite order across two smooth curves intersecting transversely at a point. Existence of C ^∞ global solutions to a corresponding class of linear mixed type equations is also established. These results are motivated by and may be applied to the problem of prescribed Gaussian curvature for graphs, the isometric embedding problem for 2-dimensional Riemannian manifolds into Euclidean 3-space, and also transonic fluid flow.     

W 2,1 regularity for solutions of the Monge–Ampère equation

In this paper we prove that a strictly convex Alexandrov solution u of the Monge–Ampère equation, with right-hand side bounded away from zero and infinity, is $W^{2,1}_{\mathrm{loc}}$ . This is obtained by showing higher integrability a priori estimates for D ² u, namely D ² u∈Llog ^k L for any k∈?.     

The obstacle problem for a fractional Monge–Ampère equation

Abstract

We study the obstacle problem for a nonlocal, degenerate elliptic Monge–Ampère equation. We show existence and regularity of a unique classical solution to the problem and regularity of the free boundary.     

Monge–Ampère measures on pluripolar sets

In this article we solve the complex Monge–Ampère problem for measures with large singular part. This result generalizes classical results by Demailly, Lelong and Lempert a.o., who considered singular parts carried on discrete sets. By using our result we obtain a generalization of Kołodziej's subsolution theorem. More precisely, we prove that if a non-negative Borel measure is dominated by a complex Monge–Ampère measure, then it is a complex Monge–Ampère measure.     

A meshfree method for solving the Monge–Ampère equation

Numerical Algorithms - This paper solves the two-dimensional Dirichlet problem for the Monge-Ampère equation by a strong meshless collocation technique that uses a polynomial trial space and...     

Characterization of ellipsoids through an overdetermined boundary value problem of Monge–Ampère type

The study of the optimal constant in an Hessian-type Sobolev inequality leads to a fully nonlinear boundary value problem, overdetermined with non-standard boundary conditions. We show that all the solutions have ellipsoidal symmetry. In the proof we use the maximum principle applied to a suitable auxiliary function in conjunction with an entropy estimate from affine curvature flow.     

Evans–Krylov Estimates for a nonconvex Monge–Ampère equation

Mathematische Annalen - We establish Evans–Krylov estimates for certain nonconvex fully nonlinear elliptic and parabolic equations by exploiting partial Legendre transformations. The...     

Optimal boundary regularity for a singular Monge–Ampère equation

In this paper we study the optimal global regularity for a singular Monge–Ampère type equation which arises from a few geometric problems. We find that the global regularity does not depend on the smoothness of domain, but it does depend on the convexity of the domain. We introduce $(a,\eta )$ type to describe the convexity. As a result, we show that the more convex is the domain, the better is the regularity of the solution. In particular, the regularity is the best near angular points.     

A local regularity of the complex Monge–Ampère equation

We prove a local regularity (and a corresponding a priori estimate) for plurisubharmonic solutions of the nondegenerate complex Monge–Ampère equation assuming that their W ^{2, p} -norm is under control for some p > n(n − 1). This condition is optimal. We use in particular some methods developed by Trudinger and an estimate for the complex Monge–Ampère equation due to Kołodziej.     

A quadratically constrained minimization problem arising from PDE of Monge–Ampère type

This note develops theory and a solution technique for a quadratically constrained eigenvalue minimization problem. This class of problems arises in the numerical solution of fully-nonlinear boundary value problems of Monge–Ampère type. Though it is most important in the three dimensional case, the solution method is directly applicable to systems of arbitrary dimension. The focus here is on solving the minimization subproblem which is part of a method to numerically solve a Monge–Ampère type equation. These subproblems must be evaluated many times in this numerical solution technique and thus efficiency is of utmost importance. A novelty of this minimization algorithm is that it is finite, of complexity O(n³)\mathcal{O}(n^3), with the exception of solving a very simple rational function of one variable. This function is essentially the same for any dimension. This result is quite surprising given the nature of the constrained minimization problem.