Global Hölder estimates for 2D linearized Monge-Ampère equations with right-hand side in divergence form (Q2304314)

The author establishes global Hölder estimates for solutions to inhomogeneous linearized Monge-Ampére equations in two dimensions with the right hand side being the divergence of a bounded vector field. These equations arise in the semi-geostrophic equations in meteorology and in the approximation of convex functionals subject to a convexity constraint using fourth order Abreu type equations. The estimates, proved in this paper, hold under very natural assumptions on the domain, boundary data and Monge-Ampére measure being bounded away from zero and infinity. They can be considered as an affine invariant and degenerate version of global Hölder estimates by Murthy-Stampacchia and Trudinger for second order elliptic equations in divergence form.