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The Cauchy problem for the homogeneous Monge-Ampere equation, II. Legendre transform

Analysis of PDEs 2011-11-10 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We continue our study of the Cauchy problem for the homogeneous (real and complex) Monge-Ampere equation (HRMA/HCMA). In the prequel a quantum mechanical approach for solving the HCMA was developed, and was shown to coincide with the well-known Legendre transform approach in the case of the HRMA. In this article---that uses tools of convex analysis and can be read independently---we prove that the candidate solution produced by these methods ceases to solve the HRMA, even in a weak sense, as soon as it ceases to be differentiable.

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@article{arxiv.1010.2442,
  title  = {The Cauchy problem for the homogeneous Monge-Ampere equation, II. Legendre transform},
  author = {Yanir A. Rubinstein and Steve Zelditch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.2442},
  year   = {2011}
}

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