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We study the entropic regularization of the optimal transport problem in dimension 1 when the cost function is the distance c(x, y) = |y -- x|. The selected plan at the limit is, among those which are optimal for the non-penalized problem,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-22 Simone Di Marino , Jean Louet

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

We study Kantorovich type optimal transportation problems with nonlinear cost functions, including dependence on conditional measures of transport plans. A range of nonlinear Kantorovich problems for cost functions of a special form is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Svetlana Popova

We study the entropic regularizations of optimal transport problems under suitable summability assumptions on the point-wise transport cost. These summability assumptions already appear in the literature. However, we show that the weakest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Camilla Brizzi , Luigi De Pascale , Anna Kausamo

The Gromov--Wasserstein problem is a non-convex optimization problem over the polytope of transportation plans between two probability measures supported on two spaces, each equipped with a cost function evaluating similarities between…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Théo Dumont , Théo Lacombe , François-Xavier Vialard

This article studies problems of optimal transport, by embedding them in a general functional analytic framework of convex optimization. This provides a unified treatment of a large class of related problems in probability theory and allows…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Teemu Pennanen , Ari-Pekka Perkkiö

We consider the Monge problem of optimal transport between a compactly supported source measure and a target probability measure with unbounded support. We consider the convergence of optimal maps and potential functions when the target…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Axel G. R. Turnquist

We give natural topological conditions on the support of the target measure under which solutions to the optimal transport problem with cost function satisfying the (weak) Ma, Trudinger, and Wang condition cannot have any isolated singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-10-09 Young-Heon Kim , Jun Kitagawa

We study the Monge--Kantorovich problem with one-dimensional marginals $\mu$ and $\nu$ and the cost function $c = \min\{l_1, \ldots, l_n\}$ that equals the minimum of a finite number $n$ of affine functions $l_i$ satisfying certain…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-03-24 Alexander V. Kolesnikov , Nikolay Lysenko

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

In the first part of the paper we briefly decribe the classical problem, raised by Monge in 1781, of optimal transportation of mass. We discuss also Kantorovich's weak solution of the problem, which leads to general existence results, to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luigi Ambrosio

We consider the theoretical properties of a model which encompasses bi-partite matching under transferable utility on the one hand, and hedonic pricing on the other. This framework is intimately connected to tripartite matching problems…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2017-01-18 Brendan Pass

The time-discretized, spatially continuous generalized Euler equations are a prototype example of multi-marginal optimal transport, yet the question whether they exhibit mass-splitting (or equivalently, whether they have solutions that are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Gero Friesecke

We study the structural properties of multi-period martingale optimal transport (MOT). We develop new tools to address these problems, and use them to prove several uniqueness and structural results on three-period martingale optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Brendan Pass , Joshua Hiew

The Monge-Kantorovich problem is revisited by means of a variant of the saddle-point method without appealing to $c$-conjugates. A new abstract characterization of the optimal plans is obtained in the case where the cost function takes…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-08-02 Christian Léonard

For a family of probability spaces $\{(X_k,\mathcal{B}_{X_k},\mu_k)\}_{k=1}^N$ and a cost function $c: X_1\times\cdots\times X_N\to \mathbb{R}$ we consider the Monge-Kantorovich problem \begin{align*}\tag{MK}\label{MONKANT}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Mohammad Ali Ahmadpoor , Abbas Moameni

Entropy regularized optimal transport and its multi-marginal generalization have attracted increasing attention in various applications, in particular due to efficient Sinkhorn-like algorithms for computing optimal transport plans. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Florian Beier , Johannes von Lindheim , Sebastian Neumayer , Gabriele Steidl

The problem of optimal mass transport arises in numerous applications including image registration, mesh generation, reflector design, and astrophysics. One approach to solving this problem is via the Monge-Amp\`ere equation. While recent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-02 Brittany D. Froese

In this paper we consider the mass transport problem in the case of a relativistic cost; we can establish the continuity of the total cost, together with a general estimate about the directions in which the mass can actually move, under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Jean Louet , Aldo Pratelli , Florian Zeisler

We characterize the solution to the entropically regularized optimal transport problem by a well-posed ordinary differential equation (ODE). Our approach works for discrete marginals and general cost functions, and in addition to two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-01 Joshua Zoen-Git Hiew , Luca Nenna , Brendan Pass