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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

In this paper, we want to establish some general results in the Lorentzian optimal transport theory that have well-known Riemannian counterparts. As a first result, we will provide non-trivial assumptions on the measures to ensure strong…

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We present a range of applications of localisation for constrained transports for pairs of probability measures in order with respect to a lattice cone. These examples comprise irreducible convex paving for martingale transports in…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-31 Krzysztof J. Ciosmak

This paper provides an unique dual representation of set-valued lower semi-continuous quasiconvex and convex functions. The results are based on a duality result for increasing set valued functions.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Samuel Drapeau , Andreas H. Hamel , Michael Kupper

There are two definitions of the measurable functional on the topological vector space: as a linear and measurable real-valued function and as a pointwise limit of the sequence of the continious linear functionals. In general case they are…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Denis Fufaev

The main result of this paper characterizes the continuity from below of monotone functionals on the space $C_b$ of bounded continuous functions on an arbitrary Polish space as lower semicontinuity in the mixed topology. In this particular…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-01-25 Max Nendel

By using the fact that the space of all probability measures with finite support can be somehow completed in two different fashions, one generating the Arens-Eells space and another generating the Kantorovich-Wasserstein (Wasserstein-1)…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Vaios Laschos , Klaus Obermayer , Yun Shen , Wilhelm Stannat

The martingale optimal transport aims to optimally transfer a probability measure to another along the class of martingales. This problem is mainly motivated by the robust superhedging of exotic derivatives in financial mathematics, which…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Gaoyue Guo , Xiaolu Tan , Nizar Touzi

This article characterizes conjugates and subdifferentials of convex integral functionals over linear spaces of cadlag stochastic processes. The approach is based on new measurability results on the Skorokhod space and new interchange rules…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Ari-Pekka Perkkiö , Erick Treviño-Aguilar

Motivated by applications in model-free finance and quantitative risk management, we consider Fr\'echet classes of multivariate distribution functions where additional information on the joint distribution is assumed, while uncertainty in…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-20 Daniel Bartl , Michael Kupper , Thibaut Lux , Antonis Papapantoleon , Stephan Eckstein

The Skorokhod embedding problem aims to represent a given probability measure on the real line as the distribution of Brownian motion stopped at a chosen stopping time. In this paper, we consider an extension of the optimal Skorokhod…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-04 Gaoyue Guo , Xiaolu Tan , Nizar Touzi

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 study measurable dependence of measures on a parameter in the following two classical problems: constructing conditional measures and the Kantorovich optimal transportation. We obtain broad sufficient conditions for the existence of…

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The Kantorovich metric provides a way of measuring the distance between two Borel probability measures on a metric space. This metric has a broad range of applications from bioinformatics to image processing, and is commonly linked to the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Trubee Davison

We study the optimal transport between two probability measures on the real line, where the transport plans are laws of one-step martingales. A quasi-sure formulation of the dual problem is introduced and shown to yield a complete duality…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Mathias Beiglböck , Marcel Nutz , Nizar Touzi

In this paper, we introduce methods from convex optimization to solve the multimarginal transport type problems arise in the context of density functional theory. Convex relaxations are used to provide outer approximation to the set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Yuehaw Khoo , Lexing Ying

We show that a wide class of risk-constrained nonconvex functional optimization problems exhibit strong duality, regardless of nonconvexity. We develop two novel results under distinct sets of assumptions, establishing strong duality over…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Dionysis Kalogerias , Spyridon Pougkakiotis

This article gives dual representations for convex integral functionals on the linear space of regular processes. This space turns out to be a Banach space containing many more familiar classes of stochastic processes and its dual can be…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Teemu Pennanen , Ari-Pekka Perkkiö

In the first part of this paper we discuss the completeness of two general classes of weighted inductive limits of spaces of ultradifferentiable functions. In the second part we study their duals and characterize these spaces in terms of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-20 Andreas Debrouwere , Jasson Vindas