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For a given Lagrangian $L:[0,T]\times M\times M^\ast\rightarrow \mathbb{R}_+$ and probability measures $\mu\in\mathcal{P}(M^\ast)$, $\nu\in \mathcal{P}(M)$, we introduce the stochastic ballistic transportation problems…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-04 Alistair Barton , Nassif Ghoussoub

We consider the minimization of the $h$-mass over normal $1$-currents in $\mathbb{R}^n$ with coefficients in $\mathbb{R}^m$ and prescribed boundary. This optimization is known as multi-material transport problem and used in the context of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Julius Lohmann , Bernhard Schmitzer , Benedikt Wirth

We propose a scalable, distributed algorithm for the optimal transport of large-scale multi-agent systems. We formulate the problem as one of steering the collective towards a target probability measure while minimizing the total cost of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-10 Vishaal Krishnan , Sonia Martínez

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

In this paper we consider a class of optimization problems with a strongly convex objective function and the feasible set given by an intersection of a simple convex set with a set given by a number of linear equality and inequality…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-11 Alexey Chernov , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov

We introduce and study the permanence properties of the class of linear transfers between probability measures. This class contains all cost minimizing mass transports, but also martingale mass transports, the Schrodinger bridge associated…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-29 Malcolm Bowles , Nassif Ghoussoub

With the growing attention towards developing the multimodal transport system to enhance urban mobility, there is an increasing need to construct new, rebuild or expand existing infrastructure to facilitate existing and accommodate newly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-20 Yu Jiang , Jiao Ye , Jun Chen

This manuscript discusses the approximation of a global maximizer of the Kantorovich mass transfer problem through the approach of $p$-Laplacian equation. Using an approximation mechanism, the primal maximization problem can be transformed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Yanhua Wu , Xiaojun Lu

We investigate duality and existence of dual optimizers for several adapted optimal transport problems under minimal assumptions. This includes the causal and bicausal transport, the causal and bicausal barycenter problem, and a…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Daniel Kršek , Gudmund Pammer

We consider a multimarginal optimal transport, which includes as a particular case the Wasserstein barycenter problem. In this problem one has to find an optimal coupling between $m$ probability measures, which amounts to finding a tensor…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Nazarii Tupitsa , Pavel Dvurechensky , Alexander Gasnikov , César A. Uribe

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

Consider a transportation problem with sets of sources and sinks. There are profits and prices on the edges. The goal is to maximize the profit while meeting the following constraints; the total flow going out of a source must not exceed…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-02-26 S. Kapoor , M. Sarwat

A convex duality result for martingale optimal transport problems with two marginals was established in Beiglb\"ock et al. (2013). In this paper we provide a generalization of this result to the multi-period setting.

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Julian Sester

We present a minimization problem with a horizontal divergence-type constraint in the Heisenberg group. Our study explores its dual formulation and examines its relationship with the congested optimal transport problem, for $1 < p <…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Michele Circelli , Albert Clop

We introduce an extension of the Optimal Transport problem when multiple costs are involved. Considering each cost as an agent, we aim to share equally between agents the work of transporting one distribution to another. To do so, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-26 Meyer Scetbon , Laurent Meunier , Jamal Atif , Marco Cuturi

We establish a Kantorovich duality for the pseudometric $\mathcal{E}_\hbar$ introduced in [F. Golse, T. Paul, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 223 (2017), 57--94], obtained from the usual Monge-Kantorovich distance $d_{MK,2}$ between classical…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-11 François Golse , Thierry Paul

Optimal transport has recently been brought forward as a tool for modeling and efficiently solving a variety of flow problems, such as origin-destination problems and multi-commodity flow problems. Although the framework has shown to be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-29 Anqi Dong , Karl Henrik Johansson , Johan Karlsson

We investigate the optimal mass transport problem associated to the following "ballistic" cost functional on phase space $M\times M^*$, $$ b_T(v, x):=\inf\{\langle v, \gamma (0)\rangle +\int_0^TL(\gamma (t), {\dot \gamma}(t))\, dt, \gamma…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Nassif Ghoussoub

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Robert J. McCann , Ludovic Rifford

An iterative optimization approach that simultaneously minimizes the energy and optimizes the Lagrange multipliers enforcing desired constraints is presented. The method is tested on previously established benchmark systems and it is proved…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 D. Kidd , A. S. Umar , K. Varga
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