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We study an entropic optimal transport problem in which the transport plan is penalized by a nonlinear convex functional acting on the coupling. We establish existence, uniqueness, and uniform a priori bounds for minimizers, and we show…

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In this paper we analyze a mass transportation problem in a bounded domain with the possibility to transport mass to/from the boundary, paying the transport cost, that is given by the Euclidean distance plus an extra cost depending on the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Samer Dweik

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 propose an overview of optimal transport theory and its applications to econometric methodology. This review is specifically designed for practitioners, be they econometric theorists or applied econometricians. The review of applications…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-04-07 Alfred Galichon , Marc Henry

We introduce and analyze symmetric infinite-body optimal transport (OT) problems with cost function of pair potential form. We show that for a natural class of such costs, the optimizer is given by the independent product measure all of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-12-30 Codina Cotar , Gero Friesecke , Brendan Pass

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 review and illustrate with several examples the connection between the search for lower bounds for the optimal constant in the Lieb-Oxford inequality and the optimal transport limit (or strictly-correlated-electrons limit) of density…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Michael Seidl , Tarik Benyahia , Derk P. Kooi , Paola Gori-Giorgi

Finding optimal trajectories for multiple traffic demands in a congested network is a challenging task. Optimal transport theory is a principled approach that has been used successfully to study various transportation problems. Its usage is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-10 Abdullahi Adinoyi Ibrahim , Michael Muehlebach , Caterina De Bacco

Some optimization or equilibrium problems involving somehow the concept of optimal transport are presented in these notes, mainly devoted to applications to economic and game theory settings. A variant model of transport, taking into…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-09-21 Filippo Santambrogio

We present a perturbative approach within the scope of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT). The method is based on the exact exchange-only optimized effective potential method, and correlation is included via perturbation expansion…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Sule

We showcase the advantages of orbital-free density-potential functional theory (DPFT), a more flexible variant of Hohenberg-Kohn density functional theory. DPFT resolves the usual trouble with the gradient-expanded kinetic energy functional…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-06-16 Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , Jun Hao Hue , Berthold-Georg Englert

We introduce a novel neural network-based algorithm to compute optimal transport (OT) plans for general cost functionals. In contrast to common Euclidean costs, i.e., $\ell^1$ or $\ell^2$, such functionals provide more flexibility and allow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Arip Asadulaev , Alexander Korotin , Vage Egiazarian , Petr Mokrov , Evgeny Burnaev

The knowledge of effective masses is a key ingredient to analyze numerous properties of semiconductors, like carrier mobilities, (magneto-)transport properties, or band extrema characteristics yielding carrier densities and density of…

We prove the conjectured first order expansion of the Levy-Lieb functional in the semiclassical limit, arising from Density Functional Theory (DFT). This is accomplished by interpreting the problem as the singular perturbation of an Optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-06-14 Maria Colombo , Simone Di Marino , Federico Stra

This article is a rough, quirky overview of both the history and present state of the art of density functional theory. The field is so huge that no attempt to be comprehensive is made. We focus on the underlying exact theory, the origin of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Aurora Pribram-Jones , David A. Gross , Kieron Burke

This paper surveys recent applications of methods from the theory of optimal transport to econometric problems.

General Economics · Economics 2021-02-04 Alfred Galichon

In this work, we propose a novel machine learning approach to compute the optimal transport map between two continuous distributions from their unpaired samples, based on the DeepParticle methods. The proposed method leads to a min-min…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-01 Yingyuan Li , Aokun Wang , Zhongjian Wang

We study the optimal transport problem in the Euclidean space where the cost function is given by the value function associated with a Linear Quadratic minimization problem. Under appropriate assumptions, we generalize Brenier's Theorem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-05-23 Ahed Hindawi , Ludovic Rifford , Jean-Baptiste Pomet

We develop an $\e$-regularity theory at the boundary for a general class of Monge-Amp\`ere type equations arising in optimal transportation. As a corollary we deduce that optimal transport maps between H\"older densities supported on $C^2$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Shibing Chen , Alessio Figalli

We introduce a constrained optimal transport problem where origins $x$ can only be transported to destinations $y\geq x$. Our statistical motivation is to describe the sharp upper bound for the variance of the treatment effect $Y-X$ given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Marcel Nutz , Ruodu Wang