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We consider the Monge-Kantorovich optimal transportation problem between two measures, one of which is a weighted sum of Diracs. This problem is traditionally solved using expensive geometric methods. It can also be reformulated as an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Jean-David Benamou , Brittany D. Froese

An equation of Monge-Amp\`ere type has, for the first time, been solved numerically on the surface of the sphere in order to generate optimally transported (OT) meshes, equidistributed with respect to a monitor function. Optimal transport…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-17 Hilary Weller , Philip Browne , Chris Budd , Mike Cullen

We consider entropically regularized, semi-discrete versions of variational problems on the set of probability measures involving optimal transport as well as other terms. We prove that the solutions can be characterized by well-posed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Adrien Cances , Luca Nenna , Daniyar Omarov , Brendan Pass

This paper is concerned with the existence of globally smooth solutions for the second boundary value problem for Monge-Ampere equations and the application to regularity of potentials in optimal transportation. The cost functions satisfy a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Neil S Trudinger , Xu-jia Wang

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

This work investigates the application of the Newton's method for the numerical solution of a nonlinear boundary value problem formulated through an ordinary differential equation (ODE). Nonlinear ODEs arise in various mathematical modeling…

We prove the convergence of a wide stencil finite difference scheme to the Aleksandrov solution of the elliptic Monge-Ampere equation when the right hand side is a sum of Dirac masses. The discrete scheme we analyze for the Dirichlet…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Gerard Awanou

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

In this work we propose a discretization of the second boundary condition for the Monge-Ampere equation arising in geometric optics and optimal transport. The discretization we propose is the natural generalization of the popular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Gerard Awanou

This work establishes a framework for solving inverse boundary problems with the geodesic based quadratic Wasserstein distance ($W_{2}$). A general form of the Fr\'echet gradient is systematically derived by optimal transportation (OT)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Gang Bao , Yixuan Zhang

We study the most common image and informal description of the optimal transport problem for quadratic cost, also known as the second boundary value problem for the Monge--Amp\`{e}re equation -- What is the most efficient way to fill a hole…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Yash Jhaveri , Ovidiu Savin

This work introduces novel computational methods for entropic optimal transport (OT) problems under martingale-type conditions. The considered problems include the discrete martingale optimal transport (MOT) problem. Moreover, as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Xun Tang , Michael Shavlovsky , Holakou Rahmanian , Tesi Xiao , Lexing Ying

During recent decades, there has been a substantial development in optimal mass transport theory and methods. In this work, we consider multi-marginal problems wherein only partial information of each marginal is available, which is a setup…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-13 Filip Elvander , Isabel Haasler , Andreas Jakobsson , Johan Karlsson

In many scientific fields imaging is used to relate a certain physical quantity to other dependent variables. Therefore, images can be considered as a map from a real-world coordinate system to the non-negative measurements being acquired.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Liam Cattell , Gustavo K. Rohde

The inverse reflector problem aims to design a freeform reflecting surface that can direct the light from a specified source to produce the desired illumination in the target area, which is significant in the field of geometrical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-28 Gang Bao , Yixuan Zhang

We study the obstacle problem for a nonlocal, degenerate elliptic Monge--Amp\`ere equation. We show existence and regularity of a unique classical solution to the problem and regularity of the free boundary.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-11-21 Y. Jhaveri , P. R. Stinga

We study the asymptotic behavior of solutions to the second boundary value problem for a parabolic PDE of Monge-Amp\`ere type arising from optimal mass transport. Our main result is an exponential rate of convergence for solutions of this…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Farhan Abedin , Jun Kitagawa

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

Numerical methods for the optimal transport problem is an active area of research. Recent work of Kitagawa and Abedin shows that the solution of a time-dependent equation converges exponentially fast as time goes to infinity to the solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-05 Abigail Brauer , Megan Krawick , Manuel Santana

This paper shows that the semi-dual formulation of the optimal transport problem has a degenerate saddle-point structure, and that its numerical solution is equivalent to solving a constrained optimization problem. We derive necessary and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Anton Selitskiy , David Millard