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Boundary regularity of optimal transport maps on convex domains

Analysis of PDEs 2025-07-09 v1 Differential Geometry

Abstract

We study the regularity of optimal transport maps between convex domains with quadratic cost. For nondegenerate CαC^{\alpha}-densities, we prove C1,1εC^{1, 1-\varepsilon}-regularity of the potentials up to the boundary. If in addition the boundary is C1,αC^{1, \alpha}, we improve this to C2,αC^{2, \alpha}-regularity. We also investigate pointwise C1,1C^{1, 1}-regularity at boundary points. We obtain a complete characterization of pointwise C1,1C^{1, 1}-regularity for planar polytopes in terms of the geometry of tangent cones. Furthermore, we study the regularity of optimal transport maps with degenerate densities on cones, which arise from recent developments in K\"ahler geometry. The main new technical tool we introduce is a monotonicity formula for optimal transport maps on convex domains which characterizes the homogeneity of blow-ups.

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@article{arxiv.2507.05395,
  title  = {Boundary regularity of optimal transport maps on convex domains},
  author = {Tristan C. Collins and Freid Tong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.05395},
  year   = {2025}
}

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