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A method for the reconstruction of the primordial density fluctuation field is presented. Various previous approaches to this problem rendered {\it non-unique} solutions. Here, it is demonstrated that the initial positions of dark matter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Mohayaee , U. Frisch , S. Matarrese , A. Sobolevskii

We associate an integrable generalized complex structure to each 2-dimensional symplectic Monge-Amp\`ere equation of divergent type and, using the Gualtieri $\bar{\partial}$ operator, we characterize the conservation laws and the generating…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Bertrand Banos

In many scientific fields imaging is used to relate a certain physical quantity to other dependent variables. Therefore, images can be considered as a map from a real-world coordinate system to the non-negative measurements being acquired.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Liam Cattell , Gustavo K. Rohde

We present a numerical method for solving the Monge-Ampere equation based on the characterization of the solution of the Dirichlet problem as the minimizer of a convex functional of the gradient and under convexity and nonlinear…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Gerard Awanou , Leopold Matamba Messi

We introduce an integral representation of the Monge-Amp\`ere equation, which leads to a new finite difference method based upon numerical quadrature. The resulting scheme is monotone and fits immediately into existing convergence proofs…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Jake Brusca , Brittany Froese Hamfeldt

We show that the deterministic past history of the Universe can be uniquely reconstructed from the knowledge of the present mass density field, the latter being inferred from the 3D distribution of luminous matter, assumed to be tracing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. Brenier , U. Frisch , M. Henon , G. Loeper , S. Matarrese , R. Mohayaee , A. Sobolevskii

A Monge-Amp\`ere (MA) equation arises when seeking an optimally transported mesh that equidistributes a given monitor function in Cartesian space. This MA equation is a fully nonlinear PDE, with a source term that is a function of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-03 P. A. Browne , J. Prettyman , H. Weller , T. Pryer , J. Van lent

This paper introduces a fast and robust iterative scheme for the elliptic Monge-Amp\`ere equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The Monge-Amp\`ere equation is a nonlinear and degenerate equation, with applications in optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 R. N. Köhle , K. T. W. Menting , K. Mitra , J. H. M. ten Thije Boonkkamp

We consider the numerical construction of minimal Lagrangian graphs, which is related to recent applications in materials science, molecular engineering, and theoretical physics. It is known that this problem can be formulated as an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Brittany Froese Hamfeldt , Jacob Lesniewski

We propose a new variational formulation of the elliptic Monge-Ampere equation and show how classical Lagrange elements can be used for the numerical resolution of classical solutions of the equation. Error estimates are given for Lagrange…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Gerard Awanou

We construct several types of multi-valued solutions to the Monge-Ampere equation in higher dimensions.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luis Caffarelli , YanYan Li

The purpose of this paper is to establish a completely new partial regularity theory on certain homogeneous complex Monge-Ampere equations. Our partial regularity theory will be obtained by studying foliations by holomorphic curves and and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 X. X. Chen , G. Tian

We study Monge-Amp\`ere gravity (MAG) as an effective theory of cosmological structure formation through optimal transport theory. MAG is based on the Monge-Amp\`ere equation, a nonlinear version of the Poisson equation, that relates the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-13 Bruno Lévy , Yann Brenier , Roya Mohayaee

We develop a differential theory for the polarity transform parallel to that for the Legendre transform, which is applicable when the functions studied are "geometric convex", namely convex, non-negative and vanish at the origin. This…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-08-04 Shiri Artstein-Avidan , Yanir A. Rubinstein

We consider the Monge-Kantorovich optimal transportation problem between two measures, one of which is a weighted sum of Diracs. This problem is traditionally solved using expensive geometric methods. It can also be reformulated as an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Jean-David Benamou , Brittany D. Froese

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-23 Hajri Imen , Fethi Ben Belgacem

We propose deep learning methods for classical Monge's optimal mass transportation problems, where where the distribution constraint is treated as penalty terms defined by the maximum mean discrepancy in the theory of Hilbert space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Takafumi Saito , Yumiharu Nakano

This is an introduction to a particular class of auxiliary complex Monge-Amp\`ere equations which had been instrumental in $L^\infty$ estimates for fully non-linear equations and various questions in complex geometry. The essential…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Bin Guo , Duong H. Phong

Monge-Ampere gravitation is a nonlinear modification of classical Newtonian gravitation, when the Monge-Ampere equation substitutes for the Poisson equation. We establish, through two applications of the large deviation principle, that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-29 Yann Brenier

We introduce a parabolic analogue of the elliptic split-type Monge-Amp\`ere equation developed by Fang and the author, extending Streets' twisted Monge-Amp\`ere equation. The resulting equation is fully nonlinear and non-concave. We prove…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Joshua Jordan