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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-24 Assis Azevedo , José Francisco Rodrigues , Lisa Santos

We propose a model to describe the optimal distributions of residents and services in a prescribed urban area. The cost functional takes into account the transportation costs (according to a Monge--Kantorovich-type criterion) and two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Filippo Santambrogio

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 develop a full theory for the new class of Optimal Entropy-Transport problems between nonnegative and finite Radon measures in general topological spaces. They arise quite naturally by relaxing the marginal constraints typical of Optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Matthias Liero , Alexander Mielke , Giuseppe Savaré

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

We study the transportation problem on the unit sphere $S^{n-1}$ for symmetric probability measures and the cost function $c(x,y) = \log \frac{1}{\langle x, y \rangle}$. We calculate the variation of the corresponding Kantorovich functional…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-27 Alexander V. Kolesnikov

An analogue of the quadratic Wasserstein (or Monge-Kantorovich) distance between Borel probability measures on $\mathbf{R}^d$ has been defined in [F. Golse, C. Mouhot, T. Paul: Commun. Math. Phys. 343 (2015), 165-205] for density operators…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Emanuele Caglioti , François Golse , Thierry Paul

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 investigate the transportation problem under a Monge cost structure and derive compact formulas for optimal dual solutions based on the northwest-corner rule. As an application illustrating how these formulas yield structural insight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Stefan Nickel , Justo Puerto , Simon Ramoser , Alberto Torrejon

We study a multi-marginal optimal transportation problem. Under certain conditions on the cost function and the first marginal, we prove that the solution to the relaxed, Kantorovich version of the problem induces a solution to the Monge…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-08-27 Brendan Pass

We propose and study a system of Schr\"odinger's problems and functional equations in probability theory. More precisely, we consider a system of variational problems of relative entropies for probability measures on a Euclidean space with…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Toshio Mikami , Jin Feng

We propose a numerical method for solving the multi-marginal Monge problem, which extends the classical Monge formulation to settings involving multiple target distributions. Our approach is based on the Hilbert space embedding of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Yumiharu Nakano , Takafumi Saito

We consider a system of PDEs of Monge-Kantorovich type that, in the isotropic case, describes the stationary configurations of two-layers models in granular matter theory with a general source and a general boundary data. We propose a new…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-10 Graziano Crasta , Annalisa Malusa

We study a Dirichlet boundary value problem associated to an anisotropic differential operator on a smooth bounded of $\Bbb R^N$. Our main result establishes the existence of at least two different non-negative solutions, provided a certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Mihai Mihailescu , Vicentiu Radulescu

Inspired by the recent theory of Entropy-Transport problems and by the $\mathbf{D}$-distance of Sturm on normalised metric measure spaces, we define a new class of complete and separable distances between metric measure spaces of possibly…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Nicoló De Ponti , Andrea Mondino

In its most general form, the optimal transport problem is an infinite-dimensional optimization problem, yet certain notable instances admit closed-form solutions. We identify the common source of this tractability as \textit{symmetry} and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Bahar Taskesen

We prove the existence of solutions for the Monge minimization problem, addressed in a metric measure space $(X,d,m)$ enjoying the Riemannian curvature-dimension condition $\RCD(K,N)$, with $N < \infty$. For the first marginal measure, we…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-10-16 Fabio Cavalletti

We review classical results where the method of the moving planes has been used to prove symmetry properties for overdetermined PDE's boundary value problems (such as Serrin's overdetermined problem) and for rigidity problems in geometric…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Giulio Ciraolo , Alberto Roncoroni

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

We define a new two-parameter family of metrics on subsets of Borel probability measures on general metric fiber bundles, called the $ \textit{disintegrated Monge--Kantorovich metrics}$. This family contains the classical Monge-Kantorovich…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Jun Kitagawa , Asuka Takatsu