Many-point tropical relaxation and the Monge--Ampère equation
Abstract
We construct an incidence-driven tropical approximation of the planar Aleksandrov Monge--Amp\`ere equation. Let be a bounded open convex domain, let , and let be the minimal nonnegative concave tropical series with integral slopes, zero boundary values, and corner locus containing an -point set . For universally generic configurations whose empirical measures converge to , uniformly on , where is the unique continuous concave Aleksandrov solution of with zero boundary values. On every compact we prove an bounded-Lipschitz-type estimate for the curvature discrepancy. No regularity or strict-convexity assumption is imposed on . For rational polygons, strong genericity holds on an open dense full-measure locus. The tropical curve has exactly bounded cells, the marked dual edges form a spanning tree, and every compact internal edge has weight one. These finite statements yield global weak curvature convergence and the exact identity , with . The proof combines tropical interpolation, semilinear marked topology, an Euler--Pick curvature formula, minimal coefficient deformations, tangential coarea, and a weighted Crofton estimate uniform over rational polygonal exhaustions. We also obtain almost-sure limits for random point clouds, full affine covariance of the continuum solution, and a configuration-dependent Abelian-sandpile diagonal.
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@article{arxiv.2607.25878,
title = {Many-point tropical relaxation and the Monge--Ampère equation},
author = {Nikita Kalinin and Ernesto Lupercio and Higinio Serrano and Mikhail Shkolnikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.25878},
year = {2026}
}
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62 pages, 3 figures