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We consider the following variant of the Monge-Kantorovich transportation problem. Let S be a finite set of point sites in d dimensions. A bounded set C in d-dimensional space is to be distributed among the sites p in S such that (i) each p…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-18 Darius Geiß , Rolf Klein , Rainer Penninger , Günter Rote

We exhibit a surprising relationship between elliptic gradient systems of PDEs, multi-marginal Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport problem, and multivariable Hardy-Littlewood inequalities. We show that the notion of an orientable elliptic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-08-22 Nassif Ghoussoub , Brendan Pass

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 prove a conjecture regarding the asymptotic behavior at infinity of the Kantorovich potential for the Multimarginal Optimal Transport with Coulomb and Riesz costs.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Rodrigue Lelotte

The optimal transportation problem, first suggested by Gaspard Monge in the 18th century and later revived in the 1940s by Leonid Kantorovich, deals with the question of transporting a certain measure to another, using transport maps or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-24 Shlomi Gover

In this work, we study the optimal transport (OT) problem between symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrix-valued measures. We formulate the above as a generalized optimal transport problem where the cost, the marginals, and the coupling…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Andi Han , Bamdev Mishra , Pratik Jawanpuria , Junbin Gao

The classical problem of optimal transportation can be formulated as a linear optimization problem on a convex domain: among all joint measures with fixed marginals find the optimal one, where optimality is measured against a cost function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-29 Jonathan Korman , Robert J. McCann

We present a systematic study of conditional triangular transport maps in function spaces from the perspective of optimal transportation and with a view towards amortized Bayesian inference. More specifically, we develop a theory of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Bamdad Hosseini , Alexander W. Hsu , Amirhossein Taghvaei

We give a new proof of the Caffarelli contraction theorem, which states that the Brenier optimal transport map sending the standard Gaussian measure onto a uniformly log-concave probability measure is Lipschitz. The proof combines a recent…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-04-15 Max Fathi , Nathael Gozlan , Maxime Prodhomme

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

We explore the geometry of the Bures-Wasserstein space for potentially degenerate Gaussian measures on a separable Hilbert space. In this general setting, the optimal transport map is formally the subgradient of a convex function that is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Ho Yun , Yoav Zemel

Optimal Transport (OT) problems arise in a wide range of applications, from physics to economics. Getting numerical approximate solution of these problems is a challenging issue of practical importance. In this work, we investigate the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-15 Aurélien Alfonsi , Rafaël Coyaud , Virginie Ehrlacher , Damiano Lombardi

We study optimal transportation with the quadratic cost function in geodesic metric spaces satisfying suitable non-branching assumptions. We introduce and study the notions of slope along curves and along geodesics and we apply the latter…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-23 Luigi Ambrosio , Tapio Rajala

We study the stability of entropically regularized optimal transport with respect to the marginals. Lipschitz continuity of the value and H\"older continuity of the optimal coupling in $p$-Wasserstein distance are obtained under general…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-06 Stephan Eckstein , Marcel Nutz

While optimal transport (OT) enforces a rigid constraint by requiring two measures to be matched exactly, partial optimal transport relaxes this requirement by allowing mass to remain unmatched through a global budget, scalar rebate, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Salil Parth Tripathi , Bertrand Chapron , Fabrice Collard , Nicolas Courty , Ronan Fablet

We develop a synthetic, variational framework for deriving comparison principles in infinite-dimensional Banach spaces. Unlike traditional approaches that rely on the regularity of minimizers and Euler--Lagrange equations, our method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Flavien Léger , Maxime Sylvestre

We investigate the continuous optimal transport problem in the so-called Kantorovich form, i.e. given two Radon measures on two compact sets, we seek an optimal transport plan which is another Radon measure on the product of the sets that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-16 Dirk A. Lorenz , Hinrich Mahler

We revisit the optimal transport problem over angular velocity dynamics given by the controlled Euler equation. The solution of this problem enables stochastic guidance of spin states of a rigid body (e.g., spacecraft) over a hard deadline…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Abhishek Halder

We consider the optimal transport problem over convex costs arising from optimal control of linear time-invariant(LTI) systems when the initial and target measures are assumed to be supported on the set of equilibrium points of the LTI…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Matt Jacobs

Quadratically regularized optimal transport (QOT) is a sparse alternative to entropic optimal transport. We develop a quantitative stability theory for QOT under perturbations of the marginals, the transport cost function, and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Alberto González-Sanz , Marcel Nutz