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The stability of solutions to optimal transport problems under variation of the measures is fundamental from a mathematical viewpoint: it is closely related to the convergence of numerical approaches to solve optimal transport problems and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Anatole Gallouët , Quentin Mérigot , Boris Thibert

We investigate the connections between continuous model theory, free probability, and optimal transport/convex analysis in the context of tracial von Neumann algebras. In particular, we give an analog of Monge-Kantorovich duality for…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2024-03-12 David Jekel

In this article we revisit the weak optimal transport (WOT) problem, introduced by Gozlan, Roberto, Samson and Tetali (2017). We work on the real line, with barycentric cost functions, and as our first result give the following…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-19 Erhan Bayraktar , Dominykas Norgilas

The dual problem of optimal transportation in Lorentz-Finsler geometry is studied. It is shown that in general no solution exists even in the presence of an optimal coupling. Under natural assumptions dual solutions are established. It is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Martin Kell , Stefan Suhr

We consider the Monge-Kantorovich transport problem in an abstract measure theoretic setting. Our main result states that duality holds if $c:X\times Y\to [0,\infty)$ is an arbitrary Borel measurable cost function on the product of Polish…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-07-10 Mathias Beiglböck , Walter Schachermayer

We compute exact second-order asymptotics for the cost of an optimal solution to the entropic optimal transport problem in the continuous-to-discrete, or semi-discrete, setting. In contrast to the discrete-discrete or continuous-continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-17 Jason M. Altschuler , Jonathan Niles-Weed , Austin J. Stromme

We study the entropic regularization of the optimal transport problem in dimension 1 when the cost function is the distance c(x, y) = |y -- x|. The selected plan at the limit is, among those which are optimal for the non-penalized problem,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-22 Simone Di Marino , Jean Louet

For the basic case of $L_2$ optimal transport between two probability measures on a Euclidean space, the regularity of the coupling measure and the transport map in the tail regions of these measures is studied. For this purpose, Robert…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-05-06 Cees de Valk , Johan Segers

The question of which costs admit unique optimizers in the Monge-Kantorovich problem of optimal transportation between arbitrary probability densities is investigated. For smooth costs and densities on compact manifolds, the only known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Robert J. McCann , Ludovic Rifford

We study the semi-discrete formulation of one-dimensional partial optimal transport with quadratic cost, where a probability density is partially transported to a finite sum of Dirac masses of smaller total mass. This problem arises…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Adrien Cances , Hugo Leclerc

We study the small-regularisation limit of the entropic optimal transport problem on the line with distance cost. While convergence of entropic minimizers is well understood in the discrete setting and in the case where the cost is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Armand Ley

The least gradient problem (minimizing the total variation with given boundary data) is equivalent, in the plane, to the Beckmann minimal-flow problem with source and target measures located on the boundary of the domain, which is in turn…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-03 Filippo Santambrogio , Samer Dweik

We prove discrete-to-continuum convergence for dynamical optimal transport on $\mathbb{Z}^d$-periodic graphs with energy density having linear growth at infinity. This result provides an answer to a problem left open by Gladbach, Kopfer,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Lorenzo Portinale , Filippo Quattrocchi

We investigate here the optimal transportation problem on configuration space for the quadratic cost. It is shown that, as usual, provided that the corresponding Wasserstein is finite, there exists one unique optimal measure and that this…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 L. Decreusefond

We establish a general condition on the cost function to obtain uniqueness and Monge solutions in the multi-marginal optimal transport problem, under the assumption that a given collection of the marginals are absolutely continuous with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Brendan Pass , Adolfo Vargas-Jiménez

This paper is concerned with the existence of globally smooth solutions for the second boundary value problem for Monge-Ampere equations and the application to regularity of potentials in optimal transportation. The cost functions satisfy a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Neil S Trudinger , Xu-jia Wang

In this article we show how ideas, methods and results from optimal transportation can be used to study various aspects of the stationary measuresof Iterated Function Systems equipped with a probability distribution. We recover a classical…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Benoît Kloeckner

We prove the optimal $W^{2, \infty }$ regularity for fully nonlinear elliptic equations with convex gradient constraints. We do not assume any regularity about the constraints; so the constraints need not be $C^1$ or strictly convex. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-28 Mohammad Safdari

Semi-discrete transport can be characterized in terms of real-valued shifts. Often, but not always, the solution to the shift-characterized problem partitions the continuous region. This paper gives examples of when partitioning fails, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-29 J. D. Walsh

In this paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness of $W^{2,p}$ ($n<p<\infty$) solutions of a double obstacle problem with $C^{1,1}$ obstacle functions. Moreover, we show the optimal regularity of the solution and the local $C^1$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Ki-ahm Lee , Jinwan Park