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We review recent advances in the numerical analysis of the Monge-Amp\`ere equation. Various computational techniques are discussed including wide-stencil finite difference schemes, two-scaled methods, finite element methods, and methods…
The purpose of this paper is to analyze an efficient method for the solution of the nonlinear system resulting from the discretization of the elliptic Monge-Amp\`ere equation by a $C^0$ interior penalty method with Lagrange finite elements.…
A numerical scheme is presented to solve the one source near field refractor problem to arbitrary precision and it is proved that the scheme terminates in a finite number of iterations. The convergence of the algorithm depends upon proving…
Data analysis and interpretation often relies on an approximation of an empirical dataset by some analytic functions or models. Actual implementations usually rely on a non-linear multi-dimensional optimization algorithm, typically…
We construct solutions to Monge-Amp\`ere equations whose Monge-Amp\`ere measures contain singular components supported on low codimensional sets. We also study the regularity of such solutions. To motivate our construction, we present…
The main purpose of this article is to establish new uniqueness results for Calder\'on type inverse problems related to damped nonlocal wave equations. To achieve this goal we extend the theory of very weak solutions to our setting, which…
For any $\theta<\frac{1}{3}$, we show that very weak solutions to the two-dimensional Monge-Amp\`ere equation with regularity $C^{1,\theta}$ are dense in the space of continuous functions. This result is shown by a convex integration scheme…
We consider the Monge problem of optimal transport between a compactly supported source measure and a target probability measure with unbounded support. We consider the convergence of optimal maps and potential functions when the target…
We first formulate an inverse problem for a linear fractional Lam\'e system. We determine the Lam\'e parameters from exterior partial measurements of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. We further study an inverse obstacle problem as well as an…
We study the problem of the existence and the holomorphicity of the Monge-Amp\`ere foliation associated to a plurisubharmonic solutions of the complex homogeneous Monge-Amp\`ere equation even at points of arbitrary degeneracy. We obtain…
We study the homogenization problem of semi linear reflected partial differential equations (reflected PDEs for short) with nonlinear Neumann conditions. The non-linear term is a function of the solution but not of its gradient. The proof…
We investigate the scattering of light by a nonlinear, anisotropic slab under conical incidence and arbitrary polarization, within the framework of Maxwell's equations, where the nonlinearities are described by nonlinear susceptibility…
Our goal is to develop a flux limiter of the Flux-Corrected Transport method for a nonconservative convection-diffusion equation. For this, we consider a hybrid difference scheme that is a linear combination of a monotone scheme and a…
We construct ample smooth strictly plurisubharmonic non-quadratic solutions to the Monge-Amp\`ere equation on either cylindrical type domains or the whole complex Euclidean space $\mathbb C^2$. Among these, the entire solutions defined on…
We study the optimal approximation of the solution of an operator equation Au=f by linear and nonlinear mappings. We identify those cases where optimal nonlinear approximation is better than optimal linear approximation.
We propose a numerical method to solve the Monge-Ampere equation which admits a classical convex solution. The Monge-Ampere equation is reformulated into an equivalent first-order system. We adopt a novel reconstructed discontinuous…
Nonlinear function estimation is core to modern machine learning applications. In this paper, to perform nonlinear function estimation, we reduce a nonlinear inverse problem to a linear one using a polynomial kernel expansion. These kernels…
We study the well-posedness of a semilinear fractional diffusion equation and formulate an associated inverse problem. We determine fractional power type nonlinearities from the exterior partial measurements of the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map.…
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The Monge-Amp\`{e}re equation arises in the theory of optimal transport. When more complicated cost functions are involved in the optimal transportation problem, which are motivated e.g. from economics, the corresponding equation for the…