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Singular Solutions to the Monge-Ampere Equation

Posted on:2016-09-28Degree:Ph.DType:Thesis
University:Columbia UniversityCandidate:Mooney, ConnorFull Text:PDF
GTID:2470390017969266Subject:Mathematics
Abstract/Summary:
This thesis contains the author's results on singular solutions to the Monge-Ampere equation det D2 u = 1. We first prove that solutions are smooth away from a small closed singular set of Hausdorff (n-1)-dimensional measure zero. We also construct solutions with a singular set of Hausdorff dimension n-1, showing that this result is optimal. As a consequence we obtain unique continuation for the Monge-Ampere equation. Finally, we prove an interior W2,1 estimate for singular solutions, and we construct an example to show that this estimate is optimal.
Keywords/Search Tags:Singular solutions, Monge-ampere equation
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