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In recent works - both experimental and theoretical - it has been shown how to use computational geometry to efficently construct approximations to the optimal transport map between two given probability measures on Euclidean space, by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Robert J. Berman

We rephrase Monge's optimal transportation (OT) problem with quadratic cost--via a Monge-Amp\`ere equation--as an infinite-dimensional optimization problem, which is in fact a convex problem when the target is a log-concave measure with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Michael Lindsey , Yanir A. Rubinstein

This is an introduction to a particular class of auxiliary complex Monge-Amp\`ere equations which had been instrumental in $L^\infty$ estimates for fully non-linear equations and various questions in complex geometry. The essential…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Bin Guo , Duong H. Phong

We give a new probabilistic construction of solutions to real Monge-Amp\`ere equations in R^n satisfying the second boundary value problem with respect to a given target convex body P) which fits naturally into the theory of optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Robert J. Berman

Stochastic knapsack problem originally was a versatile model for controls in telecommunication networks. Recently, it draws attentions of revenue management community by serving as a basic model for allocating resources over time. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-05-13 Yingdong Lu

This paper analyzes a regularization scheme of the Monge--Amp\`ere equation by uniformly elliptic Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman equations. The main tools are stability estimates in the $L^\infty$ norm from the theory of viscosity solutions…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Dietmar Gallistl , Ngoc Tien Tran

The inverse reflector problem arises in geometrical nonimaging optics: Given a light source and a target, the question is how to design a reflecting free-form surface such that a desired light density distribution is generated on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-27 Kolja Brix , Yasemin Hafizogullari , Andreas Platen

Optimal transport has found numerous applications across data science, many of which require differentiating the optimal transport map with respect to the underlying probability densities in the Fr\'echet sense. In this work, we show that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Alberto González-Sanz , Shunan Sheng

A probabilistic method for solving the Monge-Kantorovich mass transport problem on $R^d$ is introduced. A system of empirical measures of independent particles is built in such a way that it obeys a doubly indexed large deviation principle…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-10-09 Christian Léonard

We propose deep learning methods for classical Monge's optimal mass transportation problems, where where the distribution constraint is treated as penalty terms defined by the maximum mean discrepancy in the theory of Hilbert space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Takafumi Saito , Yumiharu Nakano

Optimal transportation of raw material from suppliers to customers is an issue arising in logistics that is addressed here with a continuous model relying on optimal transport theory. A physics informed neuralnetwork method is advocated…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Alexandre Caboussat , Anna Peruso

This paper studies the numerical approximation of solution of the Dirichlet problem for the fully nonlinear Monge-Ampere equation. In this approach, we take the advantage of reformulation the Monge-Ampere problem as an optimization problem,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Fethi Ben Belgacem

It is well known that the quadratic-cost optimal transportation problem is formally equivalent to the second boundary value problem for the Monge-Amp\`ere equation. Viscosity solutions are a powerful tool for analysing and approximating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Brittany Froese Hamfeldt

In this paper, we study flexibility of weak solutions to the Monge-Amp\`ere system (MA) via convex integration. This new system of Pdes is an extension of the Monge-Amp\`ere equation in $d=2$ dimensions, naturally arising from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Marta Lewicka

This work builds the connection between the regularity theory of optimal transportation map, Monge-Amp\`{e}re equation and GANs, which gives a theoretic understanding of the major drawbacks of GANs: convergence difficulty and mode collapse.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Na Lei , Yang Guo , Dongsheng An , Xin Qi , Zhongxuan Luo , Shing-Tung Yau , Xianfeng Gu

We describe a method to reduce partial differential equations of Monge-Amp\`ere type in 4 variables to complex partial differential equations in 2 variables. To illustrate this method, we construct explicit holomorphic solutions of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Bertrand Banos

We study asymptotic behaviors of solutions to the Monge-Amp\`ere equation in cones and use the expansion as a tool to study the regularity of solutions in polygonal domains.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Genggeng Huang , Weiming Shen

We consider degenerate Monge-Amp\`ere equations on compact Hessian manifolds. We establish compactness properties of the set of normalized quasi-convex functions and show local and global comparison principles for twisted Monge-Amp\`ere…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Vincent Guedj , Tat Dat Tô

In this paper we consider Monge-Amp\`ere equations on compact Hessian manifolds, or equivalently Monge-Amp\`ere equations on certain unbounded convex domains $\Omega\subseteq \mathbb{R}^n$, with a periodicity constraint given by the action…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-12 Jakob Hultgren , Magnus Önnheim

In this article, we report the results we obtained when investigating the numerical solution of some nonlinear eigenvalue problems for the Monge-Amp\`{e}re operator $v\rightarrow \det \mathbf{D}^2 v$. The methodology we employ relies on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Roland Glowinski , Shingyu Leung , Hao Liu , Jianliang Qian