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We study the dual formulation of the Monge-Kantorovich optimal transportation problem, in particular under what circumstances it is permitted in an infinite dimensional setting to use cylindrical functions, i.e. functions of the form…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Martijn Zaal

We study the optimal transport between two probability measures on the real line, where the transport plans are laws of one-step martingales. A quasi-sure formulation of the dual problem is introduced and shown to yield a complete duality…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Mathias Beiglböck , Marcel Nutz , Nizar Touzi

The dual problem of optimal transportation in Lorentz-Finsler geometry is studied. It is shown that in general no solution exists even in the presence of an optimal coupling. Under natural assumptions dual solutions are established. It is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Martin Kell , Stefan Suhr

Given two compact metric spaces $X$ and $Y$, a Lipschitz continuous cost function $c$ on $X \times Y$ and two probabilities $\mu \in\mathcal{P}(X),\,\nu\in\mathcal{P}(Y)$, we propose to study the Monge-Kantorovich problem and its duality…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-02-03 Jairo K. Mengue

We study optimal transportation problems with constraints on densities of transport plans. We obtain a sharp condition for the uniqueness of an optimal solution to the Kantorovich problem with density constraints, namely that the Borel…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Svetlana Popova

The multistochastic $ (n,k)$-Monge--Kantorovich problem on a product space $\prod_{i=1}^n X_i$ is an extension of the classical Monge--Kantorovich problem. This problem is considered on the space of measures with fixed projections onto…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Nikita A. Gladkov , Alexander V. Kolesnikov , Alexander P. Zimin

We consider the Monge-Kantorovich problem between two random measuress. More precisely, given probability measures $\mathbb{P}_1,\mathbb{P}_2\in\mathcal{P}(\mathcal{P}(M))$ on the space $\mathcal{P}(M)$ of probability measures on a smooth…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Pedram Emami , Brendan Pass

Given two n-dimensional measures $\mu$ and $\nu$ on Polish spaces, we propose an optimal transportation's formulation, inspired by classical Kan-torovitch's formulation in the scalar case. In particular, we established a strong duality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-16 Xavier Bacon

This note establishes that a generalization of $c$-cyclical monotonicity from the Monge-Kantorovich problem with two marginals gives rise to a sufficient condition for optimality also in the multi-marginal version of that problem. To obtain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-22 Claus Griessler

The Monge-Kantorovich problem for the infinite Wasserstein distance presents several peculiarities. Among them the lack of convexity and then of a direct duality. We study in dimension 1 the dual problem introduced by Barron, Bocea and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-08 Luigi De Pascale , Jean Louet

The paper is accompanying "A general Duality Theorem for the Monge-Kantorovich Transport Problem". We explain the methods used in this article in an elementary setting and present two examples complementing the results obtained therein.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-24 Mathias Beiglboeck , Christian Leonard , Walter Schachermayer

The paper is accompanying "A general Duality Theorem for the Monge-Kantorovich Transport Problem". We explain the methods used in this article in an elementary setting and present two examples complementing the results obtained therein.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-10-27 Mathias Beiglböck , Christian Léonard , Walter Schachermayer

In this short note, we show that given a cost function $c$, any coupling $\pi$ of two probability measures where the second is a discrete measure can be associated to a certain bipartite graph containing a perfect matching, based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Mohit Bansil , Jun Kitagawa

In this paper we extend the duality theory of the multi-marginal optimal transport problem for cost functions depending on a decreasing function of the distance (not necessarily bounded). This class of cost functions appears in the context…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Augusto Gerolin , Anna Kausamo , Tapio Rajala

We present a general method, based on conjugate duality, for solving a convex minimization problem without assuming unnecessary topological restrictions on the constraint set. It leads to dual equalities and characterizations of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Christian Léonard

We consider the optimal transportation problem on a globally hyperbolic spacetime for some cost function $c_2$, which corresponds to the optimal transportation problem on a complete Riemannian manifold where the cost function is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Alec Metsch

We prove that $c$-cyclically monotone transport plans $\pi$ optimize the Monge-Kantorovich transportation problem under an additional measurability condition. This measurability condition is always satisfied for finitely valued, lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-11-09 Walter Schachermayer , Josef Teichmann

For two Polish state spaces $E_X$ and $E_Y$, and an operator $G_X$, we obtain existence and uniqueness of a $G_X$-martingale problem provided there is a bounded continuous duality function $H$ on $E_X \times E_Y$ together with a dual…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-26 Andrej Depperschmidt , Andreas Greven , Peter Pfaffelhuber

We consider the problem of finding the maximum of $\mathbb{E}_{\nu}[f(X)]$ where $\nu$ is allowed to vary over all the probability measures on a Polish space $S$ for which $d_c(\mu,\nu)\leq \theta$, in which $d_c$ is an optimal transport…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Gusti van Zyl

We provide a pointwise bipolar theorem for liminf-closed convex sets of positive Borel measurable functions on a sigma-compact metric space without the assumption that the polar is a tight set of measures. As applications we derive a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Daniel Bartl , Michael Kupper