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This is the content of the lectures given by the author at the winter school KAWA3 held at the University of Barcelona in 2012 from January 30 to February 3. The main goal was to give an account of viscosity techniques and to apply them to…
In this paper, we study the Dirichlet problem for Monge-Amp\`ere type equations for $p$-plurisubharmonic functions on Riemannian manifolds. The $a$ $priori$ estimates up to the second order derivatives of solutions are established. The…
We prove the existence of C^{\infty} local solutions to a class of mixed type Monge-Ampere equations in the plane. More precisely, the equation changes type to finite order across two smooth curves intersecting transversely at a point.…
We study a fractional diffusion problem in the divergence form in one space dimension. We define a notion of the viscosity solution. We prove existence of viscosity solutions to the fractional diffusion problem with the Dirichlet boundary…
Viscosity solutions are suitable notions in the study of nonlinear PDEs justified by estimates established via the maximum principle or the comparison principle. Here we prove that the isoperimetric profile functions of Riemannian manifolds…
The proof of the comparison principlein [EGZ11] is not complete. We provide here an alternative proof, valid in the ample locus of any big cohomology class, and discuss the resulting modifications.
We introduce a notion of subunit vector field for fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic equations. We prove that an interior maximum of a viscosity subsolution of such an equation propagates along the trajectories of subunit vector fields.…
We prove the comparison principle for viscosity sub and super solutions of degenerate nonlocal operators with general nonlocal gradient nonlinearities. The proofs apply to purely Hamilton-Jacobi equations of order $0<s<1$.
In this work we consider viscosity solutions to second order partial differential equations on Riemannian manifolds. We prove maximum principles for solutions to Dirichlet problem on a compact Riemannian manifold with boundary. Using a…
In this article, we introduce and study three numerical methods for the Dirichlet Monge Amp\`ere equation in two dimensions. The approaches consist in considering new equivalent problems. The latter are discretized by a wide stencil finite…
In this paper, we study the Neumann problem of Monge-Amp\`ere equations in Semi-space. For two dimensional case, we prove that its viscosity convex solutions must be a quadratic polynomial. When the space dimension $n\geq 3$, we show that…
By employing a Carnot parabolic maximum principle, we show existence-uniqueness of viscosity solutions to a class of equations modeled on the parabolic infinite Laplace equation in Carnot groups. We show stability of solutions within the…
We study the Dirichlet problem for Monge-Amp\`ere equation in bounded convex polytopes. We give sharp conditions for the existence of global $C^2$ and $C^{2,\alpha}$ convex solutions provided that a global $C^2$, convex subsolution exists.
A viscosity approach is introduced for the Dirichlet problem associated to complex Hessian type equations on domains in $\C^n$. The arguments are modelled on the theory of viscosity solutions for real Hessian type equations developed by…
It is well known that the quadratic-cost optimal transportation problem is formally equivalent to the second boundary value problem for the Monge-Amp\`ere equation. Viscosity solutions are a powerful tool for analysing and approximating…
Here we provide a uniqueness result for viscosity solutions to sub-Riemannian mean curvature flow. In this setting the uniqueness cannot be deduced via comparison principle, which is known only for graphs and for radially symmetric…
The existence of a unique numerical solution of the semi-Lagrangian method for the simple Monge-Amp\`ere equation is known independently of the convexity of the domain or Dirichlet boundary data -- when the Monge-Amp\`ere equation is posed…
For any Carnot group $\bf G$ and a bounded domain $\Omega\subset \bf G$, we prove that viscosity solutions in $C(\bar\Om)$ of the fully nonlinear subelliptic equation $F(u,\nabla_h u, \nabla^2_h u)=0$ are unique when $F\in C(R\times…
The aim of this paper is to give a new proof of the complete characterization of measures for which there exist a solution of the Dirichlet problem for the complex Monge-Ampere operator in the set of plurisubharmonic functions with finite…
The elliptic Monge-Amp\`ere equation is a fully nonlinear Partial Differential Equation that originated in geometric surface theory and has been applied in dynamic meteorology, elasticity, geometric optics, image processing and image…