New $C^0$ interior penalty method for Monge-Ampère equations

Abstract

Monge-Ampère equation is a prototype second-order fully nonlinear partial differential equation. In this paper, we propose a new idea to design and analyze the $C^0$ interior penalty method to approximation the viscosity solution of the Monge-Ampère equation. The new methods is inspired from the discrete Miranda-Talenti estimate. Based on the vanishing moment representation, we approximate the Monge-Ampère equation by the fourth order semi-linear equation with some additional boundary conditions. We will use the discrete Miranda-Talenti estimates to ensure the well-posedness of the numerical scheme and derive the error estimates.