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We give a characterization of optimal transport plans for a variant of the usual quadratic transport cost introduced in [33]. Optimal plans are composition of a deterministic transport given by the gradient of a continuously differentiable…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Nathael Gozlan , Nicolas Juillet

The fundamental theorem of classical optimal transport establishes strong duality and characterizes optimizers through a complementary slackness condition. Milestones such as Brenier's theorem and the Kantorovich-Rubinstein formula are…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Mathias Beiglböck , Gudmund Pammer , Lorenz Riess , Stefan Schrott

Discrete Fenchel duality is one of the central issues in discrete convex analysis. The Fenchel-type min-max theorem for a pair of integer-valued M-natural-convex functions generalizes the min-max formulas for polymatroid intersection and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Kazuo Murota , Akihisa Tamura

Some sharp inequalities of Gruss type for sequences of vectors in real or complex inner product spaces are obtained. Applications for Jensen's inequality for convex functions defined on such spaces are also provided.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Sever Silvestru Dragomir

In this work, we connect the problem of bounding the expected generalisation error with transportation-cost inequalities. Exposing the underlying pattern behind both approaches we are able to generalise them and go beyond Kullback-Leibler…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Amedeo Roberto Esposito , Michael Gastpar

Some Tur\'an type inequalities for Struve functions of the first kind are deduced by using various methods developed in the case of Bessel functions of the first and second kind. New formulas, like Mittag-Leffler expansion, infinite product…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-07-14 Árpád Baricz , Saminathan Ponnusamy , Sanjeev Singh

In the field of statistics, many kind of divergence functions have been studied as an amount which measures the discrepancy between two probability distributions. In the differential geometrical approach in statistics (information…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-09-11 Tomohiro Nishiyama

We develop the optimal transportation approach to modified log-Sobolev inequalities and to isoperimetric inequalities. Various sufficient conditions for such inequalities are given. Some of them are new even in the classical log-Sobolev…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-09-26 Franck Barthe , Alexander V. Kolesnikov

To a function with values in the power set of a pre-ordered, separated locally convex space a family of scalarizations is given which completely characterizes the original function. A concept of a Legendre-Fenchel conjugate for set-valued…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Carola Schrage

We study a family of inequalities on pairs of measure spaces involving functions defined on product domains. Our main result establishes a Jensen-type inequality under a general product-measure framework, extending classical inequalities…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-09 P. D. Johnson , R. N. Mohapatra , Shankhadeep Mondal

This article characterizes conjugates and subdifferentials of convex integral functionals over linear spaces of cadlag stochastic processes. The approach is based on new measurability results on the Skorokhod space and new interchange rules…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Ari-Pekka Perkkiö , Erick Treviño-Aguilar

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

The theory of abstract convexity, also known as convexity without linearity, is an extension of the classical convex analysis. There are a number of remarkable results, mostly concerning duality, and some numerical methods, however, this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Reinier Díaz Millán , Nadezda Sukhorukova , Julien Ugon

In this paper, we establish some sharp inequalities between the volume and the integral of the $k$-th mean curvature for $k+1$-convex domains in the Euclidean space. The results generalize the classical Alexandrov-Fenchel inequalities for…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-15 Sun-Yung A. Chang , Yi Wang

In this paper, we state some characterizations of $h$-convex function is defined on a convex set in a linear space. By doing so, we extend the Jensen-Mercer inequality for $h$-convex function. We will also define $h$-convex function for…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-31 M. Abbasi , A. Morassaei , F. Mirzapour

The optimal weak transport problem has recently been introduced by Gozlan et.\ al. We provide general existence and duality results for these problems on arbitrary Polish spaces, as well as a necessary and sufficient optimality criterion in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Julio Backhoff Veraguas , Mathias Beiglboeck , Gudmund Pammer

In this paper, we describe a new vector similarity measure associated with a convex cost function. Given two vectors, we determine the surface normals of the convex function at the vectors. The angle between the two surface normals is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-23 Osman Gunay , Cem Emre Akbas , A. Enis Cetin

We study some properties convex functions fulfill. Among the conclusions we obtain from such result, we are able to prove some nontrivial inequalities among real numbers, and we give an improvement of the reverse triangle inequality in the…

Extension problems for polynomial valuations on different cones of convex functions are investigated. It is shown that for the classes of functions under consideration, the extension problem reduces to a simple geometric obstruction on the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-14 Jonas Knoerr , Jacopo Ulivelli

Fuel cost contributes to a significant portion of operating cost in cargo transportation. Though classic routing models usually treat fuel cost as input data, fuel consumption heavily depends on the travel speed, which has led to the study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-30 Ricardo Fukasawa , Qie He , Fernando Santos , Yongjia Song