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We study classes of convex functions on balanced polyhedral spaces and establish various structural properties, including a compactness theorem for polyhedrally plurisubharmonic functions. Using tropical intersection theory, we construct…
We present three novel forms of the Monge-Ampere equation, which is used, e.g., in image processing and in reconstruction of mass transportation in the primordial Universe. The central role in this paper is played by our Fourier integral…
We provide a pointwise bipolar theorem for liminf-closed convex sets of positive Borel measurable functions on a sigma-compact metric space without the assumption that the polar is a tight set of measures. As applications we derive a…
We study a Monge-Amp\`ere type equation that interpolates the classical {\sigma_2} -Yamabe equation in conformal geometry and the 2-Hessian equation in dimension 4.
The Moreau envelope is one of the key convexity-preserving functional operations in convex analysis, and it is central to the development and analysis of many approaches for convex optimization. This paper develops the theory for an…
We prove estimates, similar in form to the classical Aleksandrov estimates, for a Monge-Ampere type operator on the Heisenberg group. A notion of normal mapping does not seem to be available in this context and the method of proof uses…
In this paper, by the method of moving planes, we establish the monotonicity and symmetry properties of convex solutions for Monge-Ampere systems on bounded smooth planar domains.
The main result of this paper is the existence and uniqueness of solution of the Dirichlet problem for quaternionic Monge-Ampere equations in quaternionic strictly pseudoconvex bounded domains in H^n. We continue the study of the theory of…
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We study the solvability of the second boundary value problem for a class of highly singular fourth order equations of Monge-Amp\`ere type. They arise in the approximation of convex functionals subject to a convexity constraint using Abreu…
The convexity of solutions to boundary value problems for fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations (such as real or complex $k$-Hessian equations) is a challenging topic. In this paper, we establish the power convexity of…
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We construct a special plurisubharmonic defining function for a smoothly bounded strictly pseudoconvex domain so that the determinant of the complex Hessian vanishes to high order on the boundary. This construction, coupled with regularity…
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.…
In this note we provide a full conjugacy and subdifferential calculus for convex convex-composite functions in finite-dimensional space. Our approach, based on infimal convolution and cone-convexity, is straightforward and yields the…
We give the Lax representations for for the elliptic, hyperbolic and homogeneous second order Monge-Ampere equations. The connection between these equations and the equations of hydrodynamical type give us a scalar dispersionless Lax…
We establish global H\"older estimates for solutions to inhomogeneous linearized Monge-Amp\`ere equations in two dimensions with the right hand side being the divergence of a bounded vector field. These equations arise in the…
Using the duality of positive cones, we show that applying the polar transform from convex analysis to local positivity invariants for divisors gives interesting and new local positivity invariants for curves. These new invariants have nice…
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…