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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Charles R. Doering , Ian Tobasco

We consider the problem of minimizing convex combinations of the first two eigenvalues of the Dirichlet-Laplacian among open sets of $R^N$ of fixed measure. We show that, by purely elementary arguments, based on the minimality condition, it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-07-29 Dario Mazzoleni , Davide Zucco

We study the convergence of entropically regularized optimal transport to optimal transport. The main result is concerned with the convergence of the associated optimizers and takes the form of a large deviations principle quantifying the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Espen Bernton , Promit Ghosal , Marcel Nutz

In this note, we present a unified approach to the problem of existence of a potential for the optimal transport problem with respect to non-traditional cost functions, that is, costs that assume infinite values. We establish a new method…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Shiri Artstein-Avidan , Shay Sadovsky , Katarzyna Wyczesany

Accurately modeling and verifying the correct operation of systems interacting in dynamic environments is challenging. By leveraging parametric uncertainty within the model description, one can relax the requirement to describe exactly the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-05 Patrick Holmes , Shreyas Kousik , Shankar Mohan , Ram Vasudevan

We show that existence and uniqueness of solutions to transported Monge-Ampere problem on complex compact toric manifold follows easily from the real theory of optimal transportation.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Szymon Myga

The concept of convex compactness, weaker than the classical notion of compactness, is introduced and discussed. It is shown that a large class of convex subsets of topological vector spaces shares this property and that is can be used in…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-06-02 Gordan Zitkovic

The main problem considered in the present paper is to single out classes of convex sets, whose convexity property is preserved under nonlinear smooth transformations. Extending an approach due to B.T. Polyak, the present study focusses on…

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Describing shapes by suitable measures in object segmentation, as proposed in [24], allows to combine the advantages of the representations as parametrized contours and indicator functions. The pseudo-Riemannian structure of optimal…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-09-10 Bernhard Schmitzer , Christoph Schnörr

Polyhedral convex set optimization problems are the simplest optimization problems with set-valued objective function. Their role in set optimization is comparable to the role of linear programs in scalar optimization. Vector linear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Andreas Löhne

Whereas in a coordinate-dependent setting the Euler-Lagrange equations establish necessary conditions for solving variational problems in which both the integrands of functionals and the resulting paths are assumed to be sufficiently…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Gregory S. Chirikjian

We study dynamic traffic assignment with side-constraints. We first give a counter-example to a key result from the literature regarding the existence of dynamic equilibria for volume-constrained traffic models in the classical edge-delay…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Lukas Graf , Tobias Harks

This paper deals with the existence of optimal transport maps for some optimal transport problems with a convex but non strictly convex cost. We give a decomposition strategy to address this issue. As part of our strategy, we have to treat…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2009-09-16 Guillaume Carlier , Luigi De Pascale , Filippo Santambrogio

Sharp constants for an inequality of Poincar\'e type is studied. The problem is solved by using optimal control theory.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2013-07-05 Hongwei Lou

Estimating Wasserstein distances between two high-dimensional densities suffers from the curse of dimensionality: one needs an exponential (wrt dimension) number of samples to ensure that the distance between two empirical measures is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-13 François-Pierre Paty , Alexandre d'Aspremont , Marco Cuturi

We propose a discrete transport equation on graphs which connects distributions on both vertices and edges. We then derive a discrete analogue of the Benamou-Brenier formulation for Wasserstein-$1$ distance on a graph and as a result…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Kieran Morris , Oliver Johnson

We study global optimization of non-convex functions through optimal control theory. Our main result establishes that (quasi-)optimal trajectories of a discounted control problem converge globally and practically asymptotically to the set…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Yuyang Huang , Dante Kalise , Hicham Kouhkouh

We provide a new proof of the known partial regularity result for the optimal transportation map (Brenier map) between two sets. Contrary to the existing regularity theory for the Monge-Amp{\`e}re equation, which is based on the maximum…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-25 Michael Goldman , F Otto

We develop a new method based on Caffarelli's contraction theorem in optimal transport to obtain sharp and uniform modulus of continuity estimates for $\beta$-Dyson Brownian motions with $\beta \geq 2$. Our method extends to a large class…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Xuan Wu

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
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