Hidden convexity in some nonlinear PDEs from geomety and physics

zbMATH Open1206.35099arXiv0902.2689MaRDI QIDQ3057950FDOQ3057950

Authors: Y. Brenier 

Publication date: 18 November 2010

Abstract: The purpose of the present paper is to show few examples of nonlinear PDEs (mostly with strong geometric features) for which there is a hidden convex structure. This is not only a matter of curiosity. Once the convex structure is unrevealed, robust existence and uniqueness results can be unexpectedly obtained for very general data. Of course, as usual, regularity issues are left over as a hard post-process, but, at least, existence and uniqueness results are obtained in a large framework. The paper will address: THE MONGE-AMPERE EQUATION, THE EULER EQUATION, MULTIDIMENSIONAL HYPERBOLIC SCALAR CONSERVATION LAWS AND THE BORN-INFELD SYSTEM.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.2689

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zbMATH Keywords

convex analysisconservation lawsEuler equationMonge-Ampère equationBom-Infeld system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elliptic equations (35J60) Monge-Ampère equations (35J96) Hyperbolic conservation laws (35L65) Euler equations (35Q31) PDEs in connection with optics and electromagnetic theory (35Q60)

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