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In the recent years the Schr\"odinger problem has gained a lot of attention because of the connection, in the small-noise regime, with the Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport problem. Its optimal value, the \emph{entropic cost}…
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The primary purpose of this note is to provide an instructional summary of the state of the art regarding cyclic monotonicity and related notions. We will also present how these notions are tied to optimality in the optimal transport (or…
The question of which costs admit unique optimizers in the Monge-Kantorovich problem of optimal transportation between arbitrary probability densities is investigated. For smooth costs and densities on compact manifolds, the only known…
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The Monge-Amp\`{e}re equation arises in the theory of optimal transport. When more complicated cost functions are involved in the optimal transportation problem, which are motivated e.g. from economics, the corresponding equation for the…