Journal of Convex Analysis 28 (2021), No. 2, 353--386
Copyright Heldermann Verlag 2021
A Nonlinear Mean Value Property for the Monge-Ampère Operator
Pablo Blanc
Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
pblanc@dm.uba.ar
Fernando Charro
Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202, U.S.A.
fcharro@wayne.edu
Juan J. Manfredi
Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, U.S.A.
manfredi@pitt.edu
Julio D. Rossi
Departamento de Matemática, FCEyN, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
jrossi@dm.uba.ar
In recent years there has been an increasing interest in whether a mean value property, known to characterize harmonic functions, can be extended in some weak form to solutions of nonlinear equations. This question has been partially motivated by the surprising connection between Random Tug-of-War games and the normalized p-Laplacian discovered some years ago, where a nonlinear asymptotic mean value property for solutions of a PDE is related to a dynamic programming principle for an appropriate game. Currently, asymptotic nonlinear mean value formulas are rare in the literature and our goal is to show that an asymptotic nonlinear mean value formula holds for the classical Monge-Ampère equation.
Keywords: Monge-Ampere, Mean Value Formulas, viscosity solutions.
MSC: 35J60, 35J96, 35B05.
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