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We provide an explicit algorithm to solve the idempotent analogue of the discrete Monge-Kantorovich optimal mass transportation problem with the usual real number field replaced by the tropical (max-plus) semiring, in which addition is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Sergio Mayorga , Eugene Stepanov , Pedro Barrios

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

We consider the problem of optimal exchange which can be formulated as a kind of optimal transportation problem. The existence of an optimal solution and a duality theorem for the optimal exchange problem are proved in case of completely…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Alexander Kolesnikov , Svetlana Popova

Suppose that $c(x,y)$ is the cost of transporting a unit of mass from $x\in X$ to $y\in Y$ and suppose that a mass distribution $\mu$ on $X$ is transported optimally (so that the total cost of transportation is minimal) to the mass…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-20 Sedi Bartz , Simeon Reich

Capacity constrained optimal transport is a variant of optimal transport, which adds extra constraints on the set of feasible couplings in the original optimal transport problem to limit the mass transported between each pair of source and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-13 Tianhao Wu , Qihao Cheng , Zihao Wang , Chaorui Zhang , Bo Bai , Zhongyi Huang , Hao Wu

In this paper, we study the optimal transport problem induced by separable cost functions. In this framework, transportation can be expressed as the composition of two lower-dimensional movements. Through this reformulation, we prove that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Gennaro Auricchio

In the semi-discrete version of Monge's problem one tries to find a transport map $T$ with minimum cost from an absolutely continuous measure $\mu$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$ to a discrete measure $\nu$ that is supported on a finite set in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Valentin Hartmann

This paper studies a variant of ramified/branched optimal transportation problems. Given the distributions of production capacities and market sizes, a firm looks for an allocation of productions over factories, a distribution of sales…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Qinglan Xia , Shaofeng Xu

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 study causal optimal transport in continuous time, with Markovian cost, between a finite-state Markov source and a diffusion target. By replacing the source with its conditional law given the observation of the target, we characterize…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Julio Backhoff , Erhan Bayraktar , Ibrahim Ekren , Antonios Zitridis

In this paper we study general transportation problems in $\mathbb{R}^n$, in which $m$ different goods are moved simultaneously. The initial and final positions of the goods are prescribed by measures $\mu^-$, $\mu^+$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$ with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-04-30 Andrea Marchese , Annalisa Massaccesi , Salvatore Stuvard , Riccardo Tione

We construct Two-Point Flux Approximation (TPFA) finite volume schemes to solve the quadratic optimal transport problem in its dynamic form, namely the problem originally introduced by Benamou and Brenier. We show numerically that these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Andrea Natale , Gabriele Todeschi

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

We establish dual attainment for the multimarginal, multi-asset martingale optimal transport (MOT) problem, a fundamental question in the mathematical theory of model-independent pricing and hedging in quantitative finance. Our main result…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-02-04 Charlie Che , Tongseok Lim , Yue Sun

This paper shows that the semi-dual formulation of the optimal transport problem has a degenerate saddle-point structure, and that its numerical solution is equivalent to solving a constrained optimization problem. We derive necessary and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Anton Selitskiy , David Millard

We show continuity of the martingale optimal transport optimisation problem as a functional of its marginals. This is achieved via an estimate on the projection in the nested/causal Wasserstein distance of an arbitrary coupling on to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Johannes Wiesel

We derive the breakdown point for solutions of semi-discrete optimal transport problems, which characterizes the robustness of the multivariate quantiles based on optimal transport proposed in \cite{GS}. We do so under very mild…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Davy Paindaveine , Riccardo Passeggeri

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

This paper focuses on martingale optimal transport problems when the martingales are assumed to have bounded quadratic variation. First, we give a result that characterizes the existence of a probability measure satisfying some convex…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Erhan Bayraktar , Xin Zhang , Zhou Zhou

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