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We prove that $c$-cyclically monotone transport plans $\pi$ optimize the Monge-Kantorovich transportation problem under an additional measurability condition. This measurability condition is always satisfied for finitely valued, lower…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-11-09 Walter Schachermayer , Josef Teichmann

We investigate a new multi-marginal optimal transport problem arising from a dissociation model in the Strong Interaction Limit of Density Functional Theory. In this short note, we introduce such dissociation model, the corresponding…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Augusto Gerolin , Mircea Petrache , Adolfo Vargas-Jimenez

We study Monge's optimal transportation problem, where the cost is given by optimal control cost. We prove the existence and uniqueness of an optimal map under certain regularity conditions on the Lagrangian, absolute continuity of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-11-24 Andrei Agrachev , Paul Lee

A key inequality which underpins the regularity theory of optimal transport for costs satisfying the Ma--Trudinger--Wang condition is the Pogorelov second derivative bound. This translates to an apriori interior $C^1$ estimate for smooth…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Simon Brendle , Flavien Léger , Robert J. McCann , Cale Rankin

A fundamental concept in optimal transport is c-cyclical monotonicity: it allows to link the optimality of transport plans to the geometry of their support sets. Recently, related concepts have been successfully applied in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-08-12 Mathias Beiglböck , Claus Griessler

This note exposes the differential topology and geometry underlying some of the basic phenomena of optimal transportation. It surveys basic questions concerning Monge maps and Kantorovich measures: existence and regularity of the former,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Robert J McCann

This work investigates several aspects related to quantitative stability in optimal transport, as well as uniqueness of the dual transport problem. Our main contributions are as follows. Chapter 1: Observations regarding the quantitative…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-22 William Ford

A probabilistic method for solving the Monge-Kantorovich mass transport problem on $R^d$ is introduced. A system of empirical measures of independent particles is built in such a way that it obeys a doubly indexed large deviation principle…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-10-09 Christian Léonard

We disprove a conjecture in Density Functional Theory, relative to multimarginal optimal transport maps with Coulomb cost. We also provide examples of maps satisfying optimality conditions for special classes of data.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-31 Maria Colombo , Federico Stra

We study a generalization of the multi-marginal optimal transport problem, which has no fixed number of marginals $N$ and is inspired of statistical mechanics. It consists in optimizing a linear combination of the costs for all the possible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Simone Di Marino , Mathieu Lewin , Luca Nenna

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 analyze continuous optimal transport problems in the so-called Kantorovich form, where we seek a transport plan between two marginals that are probability measures on compact subsets of Euclidean space. We consider the case of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Christian Clason , Dirk A. Lorenz , Hinrich Mahler , Benedikt Wirth

This paper studies the uniqueness of solutions to the dual optimal transport problem, both qualitatively and quantitatively (bounds on the diameter of the set of optimisers). On the qualitative side, we prove that when one marginal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 William Ford

It is well-known that duality in the Monge-Kantorovich transport problem holds true provided that the cost function $c:X\times Y\to [0,\infty]$ is lower semi-continuous or finitely valued, but it may fail otherwise. We present a suitable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-09-10 Mathias Beiglboeck , Aldo Pratelli

For a family of probability spaces $\{(X_k,\mathcal{B}_{X_k},\mu_k)\}_{k=1}^N$ and a cost function $c: X_1\times\cdots\times X_N\to \mathbb{R}$ we consider the Monge-Kantorovich problem \begin{align*}\tag{MK}\label{MONKANT}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Mohammad Ali Ahmadpoor , Abbas Moameni

The basic problem of optimal transportation consists in minimizing the expected costs $\mathbb {E}[c(X_1,X_2)]$ by varying the joint distribution $(X_1,X_2)$ where the marginal distributions of the random variables $X_1$ and $X_2$ are…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-14 Mathias Beiglböck , Nicolas Juillet

Kantorovich potentials denote the dual solutions of the renowned optimal transportation problem. Uniqueness of these solutions is relevant from both a theoretical and an algorithmic point of view, and has recently emerged as a necessary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Thomas Staudt , Shayan Hundrieser , Axel Munk

We present a general method, based on conjugate duality, for solving a convex minimization problem without assuming unnecessary topological restrictions on the constraint set. It leads to dual equalities and characterizations of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Christian Léonard

We consider a multimarginal transport problem with repulsive cost, where the marginals are all equal to a fixed probability $\rho \in \mathcal{P}(\mathbb{R}^d)$. We prove that, if the concentration of $\rho$ is less than $1/N$, then the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-01 Ugo Bindini

We consider Kantorovich optimal transportation problem in the case where the cost function and marginal distributions continuously depend on a parameter with values in a metric space. We prove the existence of approximate optimal Monge…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-27 Svetlana Popova