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The alternating minimization (AM) method is a fundamental method for minimizing convex functions whose variable consists of two blocks. How to efficiently solve each subproblems when applying the AM method is the most concerned task. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-16 Hui Zhang , Lizhi Cheng

In this paper we consider the generalised solutions to the Monge-Amp{\`{e}}re type equations with general source terms. We firstly prove the so-called comparison principle and then give some important propositions for the border of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-22 Weifeng Qiu , Lan Tang

In this paper, we prove global second derivative estimates for solutions of the Dirichlet problem for the Monge-Ampere equation when the inhomogeneous term is only assumed to be Holder continuous. As a consequence of our approach, we also…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Neil S. Trudinger , Xu-Jia Wang

This paper develops meshless methods for probabilistically describing discretisation error in the numerical solution of partial differential equations. This construction enables the solution of Bayesian inverse problems while accounting for…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-12-20 Jon Cockayne , Chris Oates , Tim Sullivan , Mark Girolami

We address the numerical solution via Galerkin type methods of the Monge-Amp\`ere equation with transport boundary conditions arising in optimal mass transport, geometric optics and computational mesh or grid movement techniques. This fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-27 Ellya Kawecki , Omar Lakkis , Tristan Pryer

In this paper, the author studies quaternionic Monge-Amp\`ere equations and obtain the existence of the solutions to the Dirichlet problem for such equations in strictly pesudoconvex domains in quaternionic space. The stability and…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2018-06-18 Dongrui Wan

The inverse reflector problem arises in geometrical nonimaging optics: Given a light source and a target, the question is how to design a reflecting free-form surface such that a desired light density distribution is generated on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-27 Kolja Brix , Yasemin Hafizogullari , Andreas Platen

A numerical method for approximating weak solutions of an aggregation equation with degenerate diffusion is introduced. The numerical method consists of a stabilized finite element method together with a mass lumping technique and an extra…

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.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-10-27 Li Ma , Baiyu Liu

We introduce a convergent finite difference method for solving the optimal transportation problem on the sphere. The method applies to both the traditional squared geodesic cost (arising in mesh generation) and a logarithmic cost (arising…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Brittany Froese Hamfeldt , Axel G. R. Turnquist

We solve two continuous extremal problems on the classes of monotone functions: in the first problem we find extremal values for a line integral of a coordinate-wise monotone function of two variables from a rearrange\-ment-invariant class…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Oleg Kovalenko

This paper studies mixed finite element approximations of the viscosity solution to the Dirichlet problem for the fully nonlinear Monge-Amp\`ere equation $\det(D^2u^0)=f$ based on the vanishing moment method which was proposed recently by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-12-11 Xiaobing Feng , Michael Neilan

The existence, multiplicity and nonexistence of nontrivial radial convex solutions of a system of two weakly coupled Monge-Ampere equations are established with asymptotic assumptions for an appropriately chosen parameter. The proof of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-08-30 Haiyan Wang

By using the Onsager principle as an approximation tool, we give a novel derivation for the moving finite element method for gradient flow equations. We show that the discretized problem has the same energy dissipation structure as the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-04 Xianmin Xu

The present paper provides two necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions to the exterior Dirichlet problem of the Monge-Amp\`ere equation with prescribed asymptotic behavior at infinity. By an adapted smooth…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Cong Wang , Jiguang Bao

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.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-13 Gerard Awanou , Hengguang Li , Eric Malitz

In this work we prove that the unique 1-convex solution of the Monge problem contructed from the solution of the Monge-Kantorovitch problem between the Wiener measure and a target measure which has a log-concave density w.r.to the Wiener…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 D. Feyel , A. S. Ustunel

Monge-Amp\`{e}re equation is a prototype second-order fully nonlinear partial differential equation. In this paper, we propose a new idea to design and analyze the $C^0$ interior penalty method to approximation the viscosity solution of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Tianyang Chu , Hailong Guo , Zhimin Zhang

We consider mesh functions which are discrete convex in the sense that their central second order directional derivatives are positive. Analogous to the case of a uniformly bounded sequence of convex functions, we prove that the uniform…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Gerard Awanou

We establish numerical methods for solving the martingale optimal transport problem (MOT) - a version of the classical optimal transport with an additional martingale constraint on transport's dynamics. We prove that the MOT value can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-08 Gaoyue Guo , Jan Obloj