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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…
This paper solves the two-dimensional Dirichlet problem for the Monge-Amp\`ere equation by a strong meshless collocation technique that uses a polynomial trial space and collocation in the domain and on the boundary. Convergence rates may…
Fully describing light propagation in a rotating, anisotropic medium with thermal nonlinearity requires modeling the interplay between nonlinear refraction, birefringence, and the nonlinear group index. Incorporating these factors into a…
This paper considers the non-linear inverse problem of reconstructing an electric conductivity distribution from the interior power density in a bounded domain. Applications include the novel tomographic method known as acousto-electric…
This paper presents new variants of the averaged alternating modified reflections (AAMR) method for the best approximation problem. Under a mild constraint qualification, we first show its weak convergence and then establish a convergence…
In this investigation the light propagation in the gravitational field of one arbitrarily moving body with monopole structure is considered in the second post-Newtonian approximation. It is found that the light trajectory depends on the…
We extend the study of inverse boundary value problems to the setting of fully nonlinear PDEs by considering an inverse source problem for the Monge-Amp\`ere equation \[ \det D^2 u = F. \] We prove that, on a convex Euclidean domain in the…
In this paper, we study weak solutions to complex Monge-Amp\`ere equations of the form $(\omega + dd^c \varphi)^n= F(\varphi,.)d\mu$ on a bounded strictly pseudoconvex domain in $\mathbb{C}^n$, where $\omega$ is a smooth $(1,1)$-form,…
In this paper, we propose a novel neural network framework, the Legendre-Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (Legendre-KAN) method, designed to solve fully nonlinear Monge-Amp\`ere equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions. The architecture…
We propose an extension to our monotone and convergent method for the Monge-Amp\`{e}re equation in dimension $d \geq2$, that incorporates the idea of filtered schemes. The method combines our original monotone operator with a more accurate…
This paper addresses the problem of inverse rendering from photometric images. Existing approaches for this problem suffer from the effects of self-shadows, inter-reflections, and lack of constraints on the surface reflectance, leading to…
We study active array imaging of small but strong scatterers in homogeneous media when multiple scattering between them is important. We use the Foldy-Lax equations to model wave propagation with multiple scattering when the scatterers are…
We present an approach for the study and design of reflectors with rotational or translational symmetry that redirect light from a point source into any desired radiant intensity distribution. This method is based on a simple conformal map…
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…
In this paper, we establish a priori estimates for solutions of a general class of fully non-linear equations on compact almost Hermitian manifolds. As an application, we solve the complex Hessian equation and the Monge--Amp\`ere equation…
In this paper we develop a new a posteriori error analysis for the Monge-Amp\`ere equation approximated by conforming finite element method on isotropic meshes in 2D. The approach utilizes a slight variant of the mixed discretization…
We consider the problem of robust matrix completion, which aims to recover a low rank matrix $L_*$ and a sparse matrix $S_*$ from incomplete observations of their sum $M=L_*+S_*\in\mathbb{R}^{m\times n}$. Algorithmically, the robust matrix…
Monge--Amp\`ere equation plays an important part in Analysis. For example, it is instrumental in mass transport problems. On the other hand, the Bellman function technique appeared recently as a way to consider certain Harmonic Analysis…
The affine maximal type hypersurface has been a core topic in Affine Geometry. When the hypersurface is presented as a regular graph of a convex function $u$, the statement that the graph is of affine maximal type is equivalent to the…
We study the eigenvalue problem for the complex Monge-Amp\`ere operator in bounded hyperconvex domains in $\C^n$, where the right-hand side is a non-pluripolar positive Borel measure. We establish the uniqueness of eigenfunctions in the…