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Partial regularity of optimal transport with Coulomb cost

Analysis of PDEs 2025-08-05 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We prove that for two-marginal optimal transport with Coulomb cost, the optimal map is a C1,αC^{1,\alpha} diffeomorphism outside a closed set of Lebesgue measure zero provided the marginals are α\alpha-H\"older continuous and bounded away from zero and infinity. Excluding a set of measure zero is necessary as optimal maps for the Coulomb cost have long been known to exhibit jump singularities across codimension 11 surfaces (even for smooth marginals on convex domains).

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@article{arxiv.2508.01756,
  title  = {Partial regularity of optimal transport with Coulomb cost},
  author = {Gero Friesecke and Tobias Ried},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.01756},
  year   = {2025}
}

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19 pages