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The Ma-Trudinger-Wang curvature --- or cross-curvature --- is an object arising in the regularity theory of optimal transportation. If the transportation cost is derived from a Hamiltonian action, we show its cross-curvature can be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-06-01 Paul W. Y. Lee , Robert J. McCann

The problem of optimal mass transport arises in numerous applications including image registration, mesh generation, reflector design, and astrophysics. One approach to solving this problem is via the Monge-Amp\`ere equation. While recent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-03-02 Brittany D. Froese

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

This article is aimed at presenting the Schr\"odinger problem and some of its connections with optimal transport. We hope that it can be used as a basic user's guide to Schr\"odinger problem. We also give a survey of the related literature.…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-05 Christian Léonard

We consider the optimal transport problem between zero mean Gaussian stationary random fields both in the aperiodic and periodic case. We show that the solution corresponds to a weighted Hellinger distance between the multivariate and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-29 Mattia Zorzi

Motivated by the applications, a class of optimal control problems is investigated, where the goal is to influence the behavior of a given population through another controlled one interacting with the first. Diffusive terms accounting for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Stefano Almi , Marco Morandotti , Francesco Solombrino

We collect some examples of optimal transports in order to explore the (in)stability of the identity map as an optimal transport. First, we consider density and domain perturbations near regular portions of domains. Second, we investigate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Yash Jhaveri

The most challenging scenario for Kohn-Sham density functional theory, that is when the electrons move relatively slowly trying to avoid each other as much as possible because of their repulsion (strong-interaction limit), is reformulated…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-05 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Luigi De Pascale , Paola Gori-Giorgi

The basic optimal transportation problem consists in finding the most effective way of moving masses from one location to another, while minimizing the transportation cost. Such concept has been found to be useful to understand various…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-10 Alonso Silva , Hamidou Tembine , Eitan Altman , Merouane Debbah

We investigate optimal mass transport problem of affine-nonlinear dynamical systems with input and density constraints. Three algorithms are proposed to tackle this problem, including two Uzawa-type methods and a splitting algorithm based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Dongjun Wu , Anders Rantzer

In the first part of the paper we briefly decribe the classical problem, raised by Monge in 1781, of optimal transportation of mass. We discuss also Kantorovich's weak solution of the problem, which leads to general existence results, to a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Luigi Ambrosio

In the present paper we deal with an optimal control problem related to a model in population dynamics; more precisely, the goal is to modify the behavior of a given density of individuals via another population of agents interacting with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Mattia Bongini , Giuseppe Buttazzo

We consider the Monge problem of optimal transport between a compactly supported source measure and a target probability measure with unbounded support. We consider the convergence of optimal maps and potential functions when the target…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Axel G. R. Turnquist

We address the problem of optimal transport with a quadratic cost functional and a constraint on the flux through a constriction along the path. The constriction, conceptually represented by a toll station, limits the flow rate across. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Arthur Stephanovitch , Anqi Dong , Tryphon T. Georgiou

Many problems in machine learning involve calculating correspondences between sets of objects, such as point clouds or images. Discrete optimal transport provides a natural and successful approach to such tasks whenever the two sets of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-28 David Alvarez-Melis , Stefanie Jegelka , Tommi S. Jaakkola

In this paper we consider a mean field optimal control problem with an aggregation-diffusion constraint, where agents interact through a potential, in the presence of a Gaussian noise term. Our analysis focuses on a PDE system coupling a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-25 Jose A. Carrillo , Edgard A. Pimentel , Vardan K. Voskanyan

We develop an $\e$-regularity theory at the boundary for a general class of Monge-Amp\`ere type equations arising in optimal transportation. As a corollary we deduce that optimal transport maps between H\"older densities supported on $C^2$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-12-19 Shibing Chen , Alessio Figalli

Understanding the complex patterns in space-time exhibited by active systems has been the subject of much interest in recent times. Complementing this forward problem is the inverse problem of controlling active matter. Here we use optimal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-12 Suraj Shankar , Vidya Raju , L. Mahadevan

Motivated by the Swampland Distance Conjecture, we study distances in field space using the framework of Optimal Transport. The associated optimisation problem naturally leads to a notion of distance in terms of a (generalised) Wasserstein…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-29 Saskia Demulder , Dieter Lust , Carmine Montella , Thomas Raml

We study the consequences of the equivalence between the least gradient problem and a boundary-to-boundary optimal transport problem in two dimensions. We extend the relationship between the two problems to their respective dual problems,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-12 Wojciech Górny