Optimal transport and the Gauss curvature equation

DOI10.4310/MAA.2020.V27.N4.A5MaRDI QIDQ820865zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nestor Guillen, Jun Kitagawa

Publication date 28 September 2021

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

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

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)

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.

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