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The optimal transport problem is studied in the context of Lorentz-Finsler geometry. For globally hyperbolic Lorentz-Finsler spacetimes the first Kantorovich problem and the Monge problem are solved. Further the intermediate regularity of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Stefan Suhr

We prove dilation invariant inequalities involving radial functions, poliharmonic operators and weights that are powers of the distance from the origin. Then we discuss the existence of extremals and in some cases we compute the best…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Roberta Musina

Given two probability measures $\mu$ and $\nu$ we consider a mass transportation mapping $T$ satisfying 1) $T$ sends $\mu$ to $\nu$, 2) $T$ has the form $T = \phi \frac{\nabla \phi}{|\nabla \phi|}$, where $\phi$ is a function with convex…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-27 Alexander V. Kolesnikov

We use the distances introduced in a previous joint paper to exhibit the gradient flow structure of some drift-diffusion equations for a wide class of entropy functionals. Functional inequalities obtained by the comparison of the entropy…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-06 Jean Dolbeault , Bruno Nazaret , Giuseppe Savaré

A variant of the classical optimal transportation problem is: among all joint measures with fixed marginals and which are dominated by a given density, find the optimal one. Existence and uniqueness of solutions to this variant were…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Jonathan Korman , Robert J. McCann

In this paper, following the recent work of Fathi (2018) in the classical case, we provide by two different methods a sharp symmetrized free Talagrand inequality for the semicircular law, which improves the free TCI of Biane and Voiculescu…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Charles-Philippe Diez

We recall some known and present several new results about Sobolev spaces defined with respect to a measure, in particular a precise pointwise description of the tangent space to this measure in dimension 1. This allows to obtain an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-12-20 Jean Louet

Let $\mu$ and $\nu$ be two probability measures on $\R^d$, where $\mu(\d x)= \e^{-V(x)}\d x$ for some $V\in C^1(\R^d)$. Explicit sufficient conditions on $V$ and $\nu$ are presented such that $\mu*\nu$ satisfies the log-Sobolev, Poincar\'e…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Feng-Yu Wang , Jian Wang

For probability measures on a complete separable metric space, we present sufficient conditions for the existence of a solution to the Kantorovich transportation problem. We also obtain sufficient conditions (which sometimes also become…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-06-13 S. Ekisheva , C. Houdré

We review recent results on functional inequalities for systems of orthonormal functions. The key finding is that for various operators the orthonormality leads to a gain over a simple application of the triangle inequality. The operators…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Rupert L. Frank

We derive distributional limits for empirical transport distances between probability measures supported on countable sets. Our approach is based on sensitivity analysis of optimal values of infinite dimensional mathematical programs and a…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Carla Tameling , Max Sommerfeld , Axel Munk

Contraction properties of transport maps between probability measures play an important role in the theory of functional inequalities. The actual construction of such maps, however, is a non-trivial task and, so far, relies mostly on the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Dan Mikulincer , Yair Shenfeld

Our aim is to provide a short and self contained synthesis which generalise and unify various related and unrelated works involving what we call Phi-Sobolev functional inequalities. Such inequalities related to Phi-entropies can be seen in…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Djalil Chafai

We characterise equality cases in matrix H\"older's inequality and develop a divergence formulation of optimal transport of vector measures. As an application, we reprove the representation formula for measures in the polar cone to monotone…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Krzysztof J. Ciosmak

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

Optimal transport (OT) theory provides powerful tools to compare probability measures. However, OT is limited to nonnegative measures having the same mass, and suffers serious drawbacks about its computation and statistics. This leads to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-26 Tam Le , Truyen Nguyen

Optimal transport has recently started to be successfully employed to define misfit or loss functions in inverse problems. However, it is a problem intrinsically defined for positive (probability) measures and therefore strategies are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Gabriele Todeschi , Ludovic Métivier , Jean-Marie Mirebeau

We propose new variational principles for traffic assignment problems. So to find equillibrium we have to solve large-scale convex optimization problem of special type. We propose some kind of "algebra" on different models and corresponding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Alexander Gasnikov

It is known that the Poincar\'e inequality is equivalent to the quadratic transportation-variance inequality (namely $W_2^2(f\mu,\mu) \leqslant C_V \mathrm{Var}_\mu(f)$), see Jourdain \cite{Jourdain} and most recently Ledoux…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-11 Yuan Liu

Using known entropic and information inequalities new inequalities for some classical polynomials are obtained. Examples of Jacobi and Legendre polynomials are considered.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-30 V. I. Man'ko , L. A. Markovich