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Quantitative stability in optimal transport for general power costs

Functional Analysis 2026-05-12 v3 Optimization and Control

Abstract

We establish novel quantitative stability results for optimal transport problems with respect to perturbations in the target measure. We provide explicit bounds on the stability of optimal transport potentials and maps, which are relevant for both theoretical and practical applications. Our results apply to a wide range of costs, including all Wasserstein distances with power cost exponent strictly larger than 11 and leverage mostly assumptions on the source measure, such as log-concavity and bounded support. Our work provides a significant step forward in the understanding of stability of optimal transport problems, as previous results where mostly limited to the case of the quadratic cost.

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@article{arxiv.2407.19337,
  title  = {Quantitative stability in optimal transport for general power costs},
  author = {Octave Mischler and Dario Trevisan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.19337},
  year   = {2026}
}

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28 pages

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