Optimal transport and the Gauss curvature equation

DOI10.4310/MAA.2020.V27.N4.A5zbMATH Open1473.35324arXiv2005.13492OpenAlexW3204220515MaRDI QIDQ820865FDOQ820865

Authors: Nestor Guillen, Jun Kitagawa 

Publication date: 28 September 2021

Published in: Methods and Applications of Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this short note, we consider the problem of prescribing the Gauss curvature and image of the Gauss map for the graph of a function over a domain in Euclidean space. The prescription of the image of the Gauss map turns this into a second boundary value problem. Our main observation is that this problem can be posed as an optimal transport problem where the target is a subset of the lower hemisphere of $mathbb{S}^n$. As a result we obtain existence and regularity of solutions under mild assumptions on the curvature, as well as a quantitative version of a gradient blowup result due to Urbas, which turns out to fall within the optimal transport framework.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.13492

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zbMATH Keywords

optimal transportGauss curvatureconvex surfacesMonge-Ampére equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimal transportation (49Q22) Monge-Ampère equations (35J96) Differential geometry of immersions (minimal, prescribed curvature, tight, etc.) (53C42) Global surface theory (convex surfaces à la A. D. Aleksandrov) (53C45)

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