A Classical Analysis Counterpart of Viterbo's Symplectic Geometry Proof of ABP in the Plane

Abstract

We first provide a classical analysis proof of a version of the Alexandroff-Bakelman-Pucci inequality (ABP) for compactly supported $C^2$ functions in dimension $2$, inspired by the symplectic geometry proof method of Viterbo, which avoids convexity or contact sets. We then show how the proof may be modified to remove the compact support hypothesis and recover the usual statement of ABP, which includes a boundary term. We also discuss the possibility (and difficulties) of extending a pure classical analysis proof to dimension $3$ and above.