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Transport maps as flows of control-affine systems

Optimization and Control 2025-06-23 v4

Abstract

We consider the problem of transporting \nota{one probability measure into another through} the flow of a given driftless control-affine system. Under suitable regularity conditions, the controllability of the system by means of open-loop controls is a sufficient condition for the existence of time-varying feedback controls such that the 11-time flow of the system is the optimal transport map for the quadratic cost.

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@article{arxiv.2404.12793,
  title  = {Transport maps as flows of control-affine systems},
  author = {Marco Caponigro and Arianna Vicari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.12793},
  year   = {2025}
}