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We consider a branched transport type problem which describes the magnetic flux through type-I superconductors in a regime of very weak applied fields. At the boundary of the sample, deviation of the magnetization from being uniform is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Guido De Philippis , Michael Goldman , Berardo Ruffini

We give a new probabilistic construction of solutions to real Monge-Amp\`ere equations in R^n satisfying the second boundary value problem with respect to a given target convex body P) which fits naturally into the theory of optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-19 Robert J. Berman

We consider an optimal transport problem on the unit simplex whose solutions are given by gradients of exponentially concave functions and prove two main results. First, we show that the optimal transport is the large deviation limit of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-07-07 Soumik Pal , Ting-Kam Leonard Wong

In this article we show how ideas, methods and results from optimal transportation can be used to study various aspects of the stationary measuresof Iterated Function Systems equipped with a probability distribution. We recover a classical…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-06-02 Benoît Kloeckner

Flow-based methods for sampling and generative modeling use continuous-time dynamical systems to represent a {transport map} that pushes forward a source measure to a target measure. The introduction of a time axis provides considerable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-19 Panos Tsimpos , Zhi Ren , Jakob Zech , Youssef Marzouk

We consider the multi-marginal optimal transport of aligning several compactly supported marginals on the Heisenberg group to minimize the total cost, which we take to be the sum of the squared Carnot-Carath\'eodory distances from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-22 Brendan Pass , Andrea Pinamonti , Mattia Vedovato

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

We show that the convolution of a compactly supported measure on $\mathbb{R}$ with a Gaussian measure satisfies a logarithmic Sobolev inequality (LSI). We use this result to give a new proof of a classical result in random matrix theory…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-11-07 David Zimmermann

This paper is devoted to the study of couplings of the Lebesgue measure and the Poisson point process. We prove existence and uniqueness of an optimal coupling whenever the asymptotic mean transportation cost is finite. Moreover, we give…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-08-14 Martin Huesmann , Karl-Theodor Sturm

We consider Monge-Kantorovich optimal transport problems on $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d\ge 1$, with a convex cost function given by the cumulant generating function of a probability measure. Examples include the Wasserstein-2 transport whose cost…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Soumik Pal

We analyze the robustness of optimally controlled evolution equations with respect to spatially localized perturbations. We prove that if the involved operators are domain-uniformly stabilizable and detectable, then these localized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Simone Göttlich , Benedikt Oppeneiger , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann

On weighted Riemannian manifolds we prove the existence of globally Lipschitz transport maps between the weight (probability) measure and log-Lipschitz perturbations of it, via Kim and Milman's diffusion transport map, assuming that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-15 Pablo López-Rivera

We prove that in metric measure spaces where the entropy functional is K-convex along every Wasserstein geodesic any optimal transport between two absolutely continuous measures with finite second moments lives on a non-branching set of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-16 Tapio Rajala , Karl-Theodor Sturm

We study Hamilton Jacobi Bellman equations in an infinite dimensional Hilbert space, with Lipschitz coefficients, where the Hamiltonian has superquadratic growth with respect to the derivative of the value function, and the final condition…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-28 Federica Masiero , Adrien Richou

This paper addresses the problem of estimating entropy-regularized optimal transport (EOT) maps with squared-Euclidean cost between source and target measures that are subGaussian. In the case that the target measure is compactly supported…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-21 Matthew Werenski , James M. Murphy , Shuchin Aeron

In this paper, we want to establish some general results in the Lorentzian optimal transport theory that have well-known Riemannian counterparts. As a first result, we will provide non-trivial assumptions on the measures to ensure strong…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Alec Metsch

We show that the ultralimit of a bounded sequence of Lipschitz maps into pointed metric spaces extends naturally to $p$-bounded sequences of Sobolev maps and that this ultralimit for Sobolev maps enjoys desirable properties. We use this to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Toni Ikonen , Stefan Wenger

The work of Sprungk (Inverse Problems, 2020) established the local Lipschitz continuity of the misfit-to-posterior and prior-to-posterior maps with respect to the Kullback--Leibler divergence and the total variation, Hellinger, and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Nada Cvetković , Han Cheng Lie

We prove that, for general cost functions on $\mathbb{R}^n$, or for the cost $d^2/2$ on a Riemannian manifold, optimal transport maps between smooth densities are always smooth outside a closed singular set of measure zero.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-06 Guido De Philippis , Alessio Figalli