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In this article we study a finite horizon optimal control problem with monotone controls. We consider the associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation which characterizes the value function. We consider the totally discretized problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Eduardo A. Philipp , Laura S. Aragone , Lisandro A. Parente

We introduce a novel discretization of the Monge-Ampere operator, simultaneously consistent and degenerate elliptic, hence accurate and robust in applications. These properties are achieved by exploiting the arithmetic structure of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-24 Jean-David Benamou , Francis Collino , Jean-Marie Mirebeau

In this paper we continue the analysis of the two-scale method for the Monge-Amp\`ere equation for dimension $d \geq 2$ introduced in [10]. We prove continuous dependence of discrete solutions on data that in turn hinges on a discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-16 Ricardo H. Nochetto , Dimitrios Ntogkas , Wujun Zhang

We study the numerical approximation of time-dependent, possibly degenerate, second-order Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations in bounded domains with nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. It is well known that convergence towards the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-27 Elisabetta Carlini , Athena Picarelli , Francisco J. Silva

The elliptic Monge-Amp\`ere equation is a fully nonlinear partial differential equation which has been the focus of increasing attention from the scientific computing community. Fast three dimensional solvers are needed, for example in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-30 Jun Liu , Brittany D. Froese , Adam M. Oberman , Mingqing Xiao

This paper presents a new narrow-stencil finite difference method for approximating the viscosity solution of second order fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations including Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. The proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Xiaobing Feng , Thomas Lewis

A Monge-Amp\`ere (MA) equation arises when seeking an optimally transported mesh that equidistributes a given monitor function in Cartesian space. This MA equation is a fully nonlinear PDE, with a source term that is a function of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-03 P. A. Browne , J. Prettyman , H. Weller , T. Pryer , J. Van lent

Multiscale finite volume methods are known to produce reduced systems with multipoint stencils which, in turn, could give non-monotone and out-of-bound solutions. We propose a novel solution to the monotonicity issue of multiscale methods.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Omar Chaabi , Mohammed Al Kobaisi

We establish a well-posedness and error-estimation framework that solves Hamilton-Jacobi equations by minimizing the least-squares residual of monotone finite-difference discretizations. This approach also applies naturally to second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Olivier Bokanowski , Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Richard Tsai

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

This paper analyzes a regularization scheme of the Monge--Amp\`ere equation by uniformly elliptic Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equations. The main tools are stability estimates in the $L^\infty$ norm from the theory of viscosity solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Dietmar Gallistl , Ngoc Tien Tran

We study the theoretical convergence of the nonlinear least-squares splitting method for the Monge-Amp\`ere equation in which each iteration decouples the pointwise nonlinearity from the differential operator and consists of a local…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Anna Peruso , Massimo Sorella

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

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 present an adaptation of the MA-LBR scheme to the Monge-Amp{\`e}re equation with second boundary value condition, provided the target is a convex set. This yields a fast adaptive method to numerically solve the Optimal Transport problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Jean-David Benamou , Vincent Duval

We investigate in this work a fully-discrete semi-Lagrangian approximation of second order possibly degenerate Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equations on a bounded domain with oblique boundary conditions. These equations appear naturally in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-22 Elisa Calzola , Elisabetta Carlini , Xavier Dupuis , Francisco J. Silva

We introduce a new overlapping Domain Decomposition Method (DDM) to solve the fully nonlinear Monge-Amp\`ere equation. While DDMs have been extensively studied for linear problems, their application to fully nonlinear partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Yassine Boubendir , Jake Brusca , Brittany Froese Hamfeldt , Tadanaga Takahashi

In this paper we develop a new a posteriori error analysis for the Monge-Amp\`ere equation approximated by conforming finite element method on isotropic meshes in 2D. The approach utilizes a slight variant of the mixed discretization…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Jamal Adetola , Koffi Wilfrid Houedanou , Bernardin Ahounou

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Gerard Awanou

Option contracts on two underlying assets within uncertain volatility models have their worst-case and best-case prices determined by a two-dimensional (2D) Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) partial differential equation (PDE) with…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-06-19 Duy-Minh Dang , Hao Zhou