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The paper is accompanying "A general Duality Theorem for the Monge-Kantorovich Transport Problem". We explain the methods used in this article in an elementary setting and present two examples complementing the results obtained therein.

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We show that the quantum generalization of the $2$-Wasserstein distance proposed by Chakrabarti et al. is not monotone under partial traces. This disproves a recent conjecture by Friedland et al. Finally, we propose a stabilized version of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Alexander Müller-Hermes

Multi-marginal optimal transport (MOT) is a generalization of optimal transport to multiple marginals. Optimal transport has evolved into an important tool in many machine learning applications, and its multi-marginal extension opens up for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jiaojiao Fan , Isabel Haasler , Johan Karlsson , Yongxin Chen

This article considers the variational wave equation with viscosity and transport noise as a system of three coupled nonlinear stochastic partial differential equations. We prove pathwise global existence, uniqueness, and temporal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Peter H. C. Pang

Causal optimal transport and adapted Wasserstein distance have applications in different fields from optimization to mathematical finance and machine learning. The goal of this article is to provide equivalent formulations of these concepts…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Mathias Beiglböck , Susanne Pflügl , Stefan Schrott

We prove global existence of weak solutions for a version of one velocity Baer-Nunziato system with dissipation describing a mixture of two non interacting viscous compressible fluids in a piecewise regular Lipschitz domain with general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Stanislav Kracmar , Young-Sam Kwon , Sarka Necasova , Antonin Novotny

The paper is accompanying "A general Duality Theorem for the Monge-Kantorovich Transport Problem". We explain the methods used in this article in an elementary setting and present two examples complementing the results obtained therein.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-24 Mathias Beiglboeck , Christian Leonard , Walter Schachermayer

We introduce a weak notion of barycenter of a probability measure $\mu$ on a metric measure space $(X, d, {\bf m})$, with the metric $d$ and reference measure ${\bf m}$. Under the assumption that optimal transport plans are given by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-30 Young-Heon Kim , Brendan Pass

We study the Wasserstein barycenter problem in the setting of non-compact, non-smooth extended metric measure spaces. We introduce a couple of new concepts and obtain the existence, uniqueness, absolute continuity of the Wasserstein…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Bang-Xian Han , Deng-Yu Liu , Zhuo-Nan Zhu

The theory of optimal transport of probability measures has wide-ranging applications across a number of different fields, including concentration of measure, machine learning, Markov chains, and economics. The generalisation of optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Emily Beatty

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

We introduce and study the class of linear transfers between probability distributions and the dual class of Kantorovich operators between function spaces. Linear transfers can be seen as an extension of convex lower semi-continuous…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-06-25 Malcolm Bowles , Nassif Ghoussoub

We introduce a new class of distances between nonnegative Radon measures in Euclidean spaces. They are modeled on the dynamical characterization of the Kantorovich-Rubinstein-Wasserstein distances proposed by Benamou-Brenier and provide a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Jean Dolbeault , Bruno Nazaret , Giuseppe Savare

We study barycenters in the space of probability measures on a Riemannian manifold, equipped with the Wasserstein metric. Under reasonable assumptions, we establish absolute continuity of the barycenter of general measures $\Omega \in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Young-Heon Kim , Brendan Pass

Optimal transport has found widespread applications in signal processing and machine learning. Among its many equivalent formulations, optimal transport seeks to reconstruct a random variable/vector with a prescribed distribution at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jun Chen , Jia Wang , Ruibin Li , Han Zhou , Wei Dong , Huan Liu , Yuanhao Yu

We completely characterise the optimal solutions for the three-marginal optimal transport problem - introduced in [K. Bolbotowski, G. Bouchitt\'e, Kantorovich-Rubinstein duality theory for the Hessian, 2024, preprint], and whose relaxation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Krzysztof J. Ciosmak

Motivated by the geodesic barycenter problem from optimal transportation theory, we prove a natural generalization of the Blaschke-Santalo inequality and the affine isoperimetric inequalities for many sets and many functions. We derive from…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Alexander V. Kolesnikov , Elisabeth M. Werner

Optimal transport is widely used in pure and applied mathematics to find probabilistic solutions to hard combinatorial matching problems. We extend the Wasserstein metric and other elements of optimal transport from the matching of sets to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Evan Patterson

We investigate existence of dual optimizers in one-dimensional martingale optimal transport problems. While [BNT16] established such existence for weak (quasi-sure) duality, [BHP13] showed existence for the natural stronger pointwise…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-12 Mathias Beiglboeck , Tongseok Lim , Jan Obłój

We present a stochastic algorithm to compute the barycenter of a set of probability distributions under the Wasserstein metric from optimal transport. Unlike previous approaches, our method extends to continuous input distributions and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Sebastian Claici , Edward Chien , Justin Solomon