On a general class of free boundary Monge-Ampère equations

Abstract

We solve a general class of free boundary Monge-Ampère equations given by \[ \det D^2u = λ\dfrac{f(-u)}{g(u^\star)h(\nabla u)}χ_{\{u<0\}} \; \text{ in } \mathbb{R}^n, \quad \nabla u (\mathbb{R}^n) = P \] where $P$ is a bounded convex set containing the origin, and $h>0$ on $P$. We consider applications to optimal transport with degenerate densities, Monge-Ampère eigenvalue problems, and geometric problems including a hemispherical Minkowski problem and free boundary Kähler-Ricci solitons on toric Fano manifolds.