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We prove a convergence result for a natural discretization of the Dirichlet problem of the elliptic Monge-Ampere equation using finite dimensional spaces of piecewise polynomial C0 or C1 functions. Standard discretizations of the type…
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…
The elliptic Monge-Ampere equation is a fully nonlinear Partial Differential Equation which originated in geometric surface theory, and has been applied in dynamic meteorology, elasticity, geometric optics, image processing and image…
We prove the convergence of a hybrid discretization to the viscosity solution of the elliptic Monge-Ampere equation. The hybrid discretization uses a standard finite difference discretization in parts of the computational domain where the…
We present a technique for proving convergence to the Aleksandrov solution of the Monge-Ampere equation of a stable and consistent finite difference scheme. We also require a notion of discrete convexity with a stability property and a…
This paper proposes a regularization of the Monge-Amp\`ere equation in planar convex domains through uniformly elliptic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. The regularized problem possesses a unique strong solution $u_\varepsilon$ and is…
We prove the convergence of a wide stencil finite difference scheme to the Aleksandrov solution of the elliptic Monge-Ampere equation when the right hand side is a sum of Dirac masses. The discrete scheme we analyze for the Dirichlet…
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…
This paper continues our work [19] on sharp Alexandrov estimates. We obtain a sharp global uniform distance estimate from a convex function to the class of unimodular convex quadratic polynomials in terms of the total variation of its…
We introduce a generalized finite difference method for solving a large range of fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations in three dimensions. Methods are based on Cartesian grids, augmented by additional points carefully…
This paper is concerned with approximations and related discretization error estimates for the normal derivatives of solutions of linear elliptic partial differential equations. In order to illustrate the ideas, we consider the Poisson…
For finite difference discretizations with linear complexity and provably convergent to weak solutions of the second boundary value problem for the Monge-Amp\`ere equation, we give the first proof of uniqueness. The boundary condition is…
We prove a convergence result for a mixed finite element method for the Monge-Ampere equation to its weak solution in the sense of Aleksandrov. The unknowns in the formulation are the scalar variable and the Hessian matrix.
In this paper we analyze the finite element approximation of the Stokes equations with non-smooth Dirichlet boundary data. To define the discrete solution, we first approximate the boundary datum by a smooth one and then apply a standard…
We introduce a monotone (degenerate elliptic) discretization of the Monge-Ampere operator, on domains discretized on cartesian grids. The scheme is consistent provided the solution hessian condition number is uniformly bounded. Our approach…
We present a numerical approximation method for linear diffusion-reaction problems with possibly discontinuous Dirichlet boundary conditions. The solution of such problems can be represented as a linear combination of explicitly known…
The theory of viscosity solutions has been effective for representing and approximating weak solutions to fully nonlinear Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) such as the elliptic Monge-Amp\`ere equation. The approximation theory of…
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…
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…
We investigate error bounds for numerical solutions of divergence structure linear elliptic PDEs on compact manifolds without boundary. Our focus is on a class of monotone finite difference approximations, which provide a strong form of…