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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

In this paper, we address the numerical solution to the multimarginal optimal transport (MMOT) with pairwise costs. MMOT, as a natural extension from the classical two-marginal optimal transport, has many important applications including…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-21 Bohan Zhou , Matthew Parno

We consider some repulsive multimarginal optimal transportation problems which include, as a particular case, the Coulomb cost. We prove a regularity property of the minimizers (optimal transportation plan) from which we deduce existence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-01 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Thierry Champion , Luigi De Pascale

The purpose of this note is to show that the solution to the Kantorovich optimal transportation problem is supported on a Lipschitz manifold, provided the cost is $C^{2}$ with non-singular mixed second derivative. We use this result to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Robert J. McCann , Brendan Pass , Micah Warren

A remarkable connection between optimal design and Monge transport was initiated in the years 1997 in the context of the minimal elastic compliance problem and where the euclidean metric cost was naturally involved. In this paper we present…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Karol Bołbotowski , Guy Bouchitté

We study the dual formulation of the Monge-Kantorovich optimal transportation problem, in particular under what circumstances it is permitted in an infinite dimensional setting to use cylindrical functions, i.e. functions of the form…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2015-04-13 Martijn Zaal

We study a multi-marginal optimal transport problem with surplus $b(x_{1}, \ldots, x_{m})=\sum_{\{i,j\}\in P} x_{i}\cdot x_{j}$, where $P\subseteq Q:=\{\{i,j\}: i, j \in \{1,2,...m\}, i \neq j\}$. We reformulate this problem by associating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Brendan Pass , Adolfo Vargas-Jiménez

The dual representation of the martingale optimal transport problem in the Skorokhod space of multi dimensional cadlag processes is proved. The dual is a minimization problem with constraints involving stochastic integrals and is similar to…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2015-02-09 Y. Dolinsky , H. M. Soner

In this note, we propose polynomial-time algorithms solving the Monge and Kantorovich formulations of the $\infty$-optimal transport problem in the discrete and finite setting. It is the first time, to the best of our knowledge, that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Meyer Scetbon

We establish a general condition on the cost function to obtain uniqueness and Monge solutions in the multi-marginal optimal transport problem, under the assumption that a given collection of the marginals are absolutely continuous with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Brendan Pass , Adolfo Vargas-Jiménez

A result of Hohloch links the theory of integer partitions with the Monge formulation of the optimal transport problem, giving the optimal transport map between (Young diagrams of) integer partitions and their corresponding symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Daniel Owusu Adu , Daniel Keliher

A probabilistic method for solving the Monge-Kantorovich mass transport problem on $R^d$ is introduced. A system of empirical measures of independent particles is built in such a way that it obeys a doubly indexed large deviation principle…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-10-09 Christian Léonard

In this paper, we consider the Monge optimal transport problem with distance cost. We prove that in some metric spaces, possibly with many branching geodesics, an optimal transport map exists if the first marginal is absolutely continuous.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Shinichiro Kobayashi

We establish a variant of Monge--Kantorovich duality for a constrained optimal transport problem with a continuum of agents, a finite set of alternatives, and general linear constraints. As an application, we revisit the large-market model…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-04-06 Koji Yokote

We consider the modified Monge-Kantorovich problem with additional restriction: admissible transport plans must vanish on some fixed functional subspace. Different choice of the subspace leads to different additional properties optimal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-22 Danila Zaev

Multi-marginal optimal transport (MOT) is a generalization of optimal transport to multiple marginals. Optimal transport has evolved into an important tool in many machine learning applications, and its multi-marginal extension opens up for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jiaojiao Fan , Isabel Haasler , Johan Karlsson , Yongxin Chen

Monotonicity and convex analysis arise naturally in the framework of multi-marginal optimal transport theory. However, a comprehensive multi-marginal monotonicity and convex analysis theory is still missing. To this end we study extensions…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Sedi Bartz , Heinz H. Bauschke , Hung M. Phan , Xianfu Wang

In this paper we extend the duality theory of the multi-marginal optimal transport problem for cost functions depending on a decreasing function of the distance (not necessarily bounded). This class of cost functions appears in the context…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Augusto Gerolin , Anna Kausamo , Tapio Rajala

We consider an optimal transport problem between laws of random probability measures: given a base cost function, we build the associated OT cost between probability measures that in turn we use to define the OT cost between probability…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Alessandro Pinzi

We present a primal-dual dynamical formulation of the multi-marginal optimal transport problem for (semi-)convex cost functions. Even in the two-marginal setting, this formulation applies to cost functions not covered by the classical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Brendan Pass , Yair Shenfeld