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Quantitative linearization results for the Monge-Amp\`ere equation

Analysis of PDEs 2021-05-03 v4 Probability

Abstract

This paper is about quantitative linearization results for the Monge-Amp\`ere equation with rough data. We develop a large-scale regularity theory and prove that if a measure μ\mu is close to the Lebesgue measure in Wasserstein distance at all scales, then the displacement of the macroscopic optimal coupling is quantitatively close at all scales to the gradient of the solution of the corresponding Poisson equation. The main ingredient we use is a harmonic approximation result for the optimal transport plan between arbitrary measures. This is used in a Campanato iteration which transfers the information through the scales.

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@article{arxiv.1905.09678,
  title  = {Quantitative linearization results for the Monge-Amp\`ere equation},
  author = {Michael Goldman and Martin Huesmann and Felix Otto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.09678},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Comment v4: superfluous assumption in Thm 1.2 deleted

R2 v1 2026-06-23T09:19:50.681Z