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In this paper we revisit our previous study of the local theory of prescribed Jacobian equations associated with generating functions, which are extensions of cost functions in the theory of optimal transportation. In particular, as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Neil S Trudinger

We consider the inverse refractor and the inverse reflector problem. The task is to design a free-form lens or a free-form mirror that, when illuminated by a point light source, produces a given illumination pattern on a target. Both…

Optics · Physics 2015-12-08 Kolja Brix , Yasemin Hafizogullari , Andreas Platen

We establish a Schauder-type boundary regularity result for a two-dimensional singular Monge-Amp\'ere equation on convex polytopes with Guillemin boundary conditions. This extends the previous work of Rubin and Huang to the case where the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Masoud Bayrami-Aminlouee , Reza Seyyedali , Mohammad Talebi

We prove sharp uniform estimates for strong supersolutions of a large class of fully nonlinear degenerate elliptic complex equations. Our findings rely on ideas of Kuo and Trudinger who dealt with degenerate linear equations in the real…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-04 Soufian Abja , Sławomir Dinew , Guillaume Olive

This paper introduces a novel neural network-based approach to solving the Monge-Amp\`ere equation with the transport boundary condition, specifically targeted towards optical design applications. We leverage multilayer perceptron networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Roel Hacking , Lisa Kusch , Koondanibha Mitra , Martijn Anthonissen , Wilbert IJzerman

By constructing appropriate smooth, possibly non-convex supersolutions, we establish sharp lower bounds near the boundary for the modulus of nontrivial solutions to singular and degenerate Monge-Amp\`ere equations of the form $\det D^2 u…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-13 Nam Q. Le

We give a new probabilistic construction of solutions to real Monge-Amp\`ere equations in R^n satisfying the second boundary value problem with respect to a given target convex body P) which fits naturally into the theory of optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Robert J. Berman

Motivated by conjectures in Mirror Symmetry, we continue the study of the real Monge--Amp\`ere operator on the boundary of a simplex. This can be formulated in terms of optimal transport, and we consider, more generally, the problem of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Rolf Andreasson , Jakob Hultgren , Mattias Jonsson , Enrica Mazzon , Nicholas McCleerey

In recent works - both experimental and theoretical - it has been shown how to use computational geometry to efficently construct approximations to the optimal transport map between two given probability measures on Euclidean space, by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Robert J. Berman

We consider Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport problems on $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\ge 1$, with a convex cost function given by the cumulant generating function of a probability measure. Examples include the Wasserstein-2 transport whose cost…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Soumik Pal

This is the first paper in a series to develop a linear and nonlinear theory for elliptic and parabolic equations on K\"ahler varieties with mild singularities. Donaldson has established a Schauder estimate for linear and complex…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-12-02 Bin Guo , Jian Song

We survey the (old and new) regularity theory for the Monge-Amp\`ere equation, show its connection to optimal transportation, and describe the regularity properties of a general class of Monge-Amp\`ere type equations arising in that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-24 Guido De Philippis , Alessio Figalli

In this paper the regularity of optimal transportation potentials defined on round spheres is investigated. Specifically, this research generalises the calculations done by Loeper, where he showed that the strong (A3) condition of Trudinger…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-31 Greg T. von Nessi

We construct and justify leading order weakly nonlinear geometric optics expansions for nonlinear hyperbolic initial value problems, including the compressible Euler equations. The technique of simultaneous Picard iteration is employed to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-18 Matthew Hernandez

In this paper, we introduce a class of nonlinear optimisation problems. Under mild assumptions, we obtain the existence of potential functions and show that the potential function is a generalised solution of a Monge-Amp\`ere type equation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Jiakun Liu

We investigate the properties of convex functions in the plane that satisfy a local inequality which generalizes the notion of sub-solution of Monge-Ampere equation for a Monge-Kantorovich problem with quadratic cost between non-absolutely…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-08 P. -E. Jabin , A. Mellet , M. Molina

We consider two natural problems arising in geometry which are equivalent to the local solvability of specific equations of Monge-Ampere type. These are: the problem of locally prescribed Gaussian curvature for surfaces in R^3, and the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-03-12 Marcus A. Khuri

We study convex solutions to the Monge-Amp\`ere obstacle problem \[ \operatorname{det} D^2 v=g v^q\chi_{\{v>0\}}, \quad v \geq 0, \] where $q \in [0,n)$ is a constant and $g$ is a bounded positive function. This problem emerges from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Tianling Jin , Xushan Tu , Jingang Xiong

A computational PDE-constrained optimization approach is proposed for optimal trajectory planning under uncertainty by means of an associated Schroedinger Bridge Problem (SBP). The proposed SBP formulation is interpreted as the mean-field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Dante Kalise , Wenxin Liu

The optimal (Monge-Kantorovich) transportation problem is discussed from several points of view. The Lagrangian formulation extends the action of the {\em Lagrangian} $L(v,x,t)$ from the set of orbits in $\R^n$ to a set of measure-valued…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gershon Wolansky