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In this note, we study an optimal transportation problem arising in density functional theory. We derive an upper bound on the semi-classical Hohenberg-Kohn functional derived by Cotar, Friesecke and Kl\"{u}ppelberg (2012) which can be…

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We study optimal transportation of measures on compact manifolds for costs defined from convex Lagrangians. We prove that optimal transportation can be interpolated by measured Lipschitz laminations, or geometric currents. The methods are…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Patrick Bernard , Boris Buffoni

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,…

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We develop a quantitative contraction framework for Schrodinger and Sinkhorn bridges based on transportation-cost inequalities and Riccati matrix difference equations. Our approach combines logarithmic Sobolev and Talagrand-type…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Pierre Del Moral

Wasserstein projections in the convex order were first considered in the framework of weak optimal transport, and found application in various problems such as concentration inequalities and martingale optimal transport. In dimension one,…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-24 Benjamin Jourdain , William Margheriti , Gudmund Pammer

The diffusive transport distance, a novel pseudo-metric between probability measures on the real line, is introduced. It generalizes Martingale optimal transport, and forms a hierarchy with the Hellinger and the Wasserstein metrics. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-01-27 Daniel Matthes , Eva-Maria Rott , André Schlichting

The goal of this paper is to settle the study of non-commutative optimal transport problems with convex regularization, in their static and finite-dimensional formulations. We consider both the balanced and unbalanced problem and show in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Emanuele Caputo , Augusto Gerolin , Nataliia Monina , Lorenzo Portinale

Inspired by the matching of supply to demand in logistical problems, the optimal transport (or Monge--Kantorovich) problem involves the matching of probability distributions defined over a geometric domain such as a surface or manifold. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Justin Solomon

Optimal transportation theory and the related $p$-Wasserstein distance ($W_p$, $p\geq 1$) are widely-applied in statistics and machine learning. In spite of their popularity, inference based on these tools has some issues. For instance, it…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-01 Yiming Ma , Hang Liu , Davide La Vecchia , Metthieu Lerasle

Motivated by pedestrian modelling, we study evolution of measures in the Wasserstein space. In particular, we consider the Cauchy problem for a transport equation, where the velocity field depends on the measure itself. We deal with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-06 Benedetto Piccoli , Francesco Rossi

We study the convergence of an $N$-particle Markovian controlled system to the solution of a family of stochastic McKean-Vlasov control problems, either with a finite horizon or Schr\"odinger type cost functional. Specifically, under…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Francesco C. De Vecchi , Chiara Rigoni

Entropic optimal transport (OT) and the Sinkhorn algorithm have made it practical for machine learning practitioners to perform the fundamental task of calculating transport distance between statistical distributions. In this work, we focus…

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One of the most well-known results in the theory of optimal transportation is the equivalence between the convexity of the entropy functional with respect to the Riemannian Wasserstein metric and the Ricci curvature lower bound of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-23 Paul W. Y. Lee

We present a flow-based approach to the optimal transport (OT) problem between two continuous distributions $\pi_0,\pi_1$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$, of minimizing a transport cost $\mathbb{E}[c(X_1-X_0)]$ in the set of couplings $(X_0,X_1)$ whose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-30 Qiang Liu

We develop a discrete optimal transport framework for analyzing simulated annealing algorithms on finite state spaces. Building on the discrete Wasserstein metric introduced by Maas (J. Funct. Anal., 2011), we define a generalized discrete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yuchen He , Tianhui Jiang , Sihan Wang , Chihao Zhang

Entropic optimal transport offers a computationally tractable approximation to the classical problem. In this note, we study the approximation rate of the entropic optimal transport map (in approaching the Brenier map) when the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-22 Ritwik Sadhu , Ziv Goldfeld , Kengo Kato

We consider an extension of the Monge-Kantorovitch optimal transportation problem. The mass is transported along a continuous semimartingale, and the cost of transportation depends on the drift and the diffusion coefficients of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-10-04 Xiaolu Tan , Nizar Touzi

The aim of this paper is to recover displacement interpolations of probability measures, in the sense of the Optimal Transport theory, by semiclassical measures associated with solutions of Schr\"odinger equations defined on the flat torus.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-18 L. Zanelli

We study the Optimal Transport problem for laws of random measures in the Kantorovich-Wasserstein space $\mathcal{P}_2(\mathcal{P}_2(\mathrm{H}))$, associated with a Hilbert space $\mathrm{H}$ (with finite or infinite dimension) and for the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Alessandro Pinzi , Giuseppe Savaré

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