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This article generalizes the study of branched/ramified optimal transportation to those with capacity constraints. Each admissible transport network studied here is represented by a transport multi-path between measures, with a capacity…

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The problem of robust hedging requires to solve the problem of superhedging under a nondominated family of singular measures. Recent progress was achieved by [9,11]. We show that the dual formulation of this problem is valid in a context…

Pricing of Securities · Quantitative Finance 2013-02-18 Dylan Possamaï , Guillaume Royer , Nizar Touzi

The Cauchy problem for a multidimensional linear transport equation with unbounded drift is investigated. Provided the drift is Holder continuous , existence, uniqueness and strong stability of solutions are obtained. The proofs are based…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-24 David A. C. Mollinedo , Christian Olivera

As an example for the optimization of unstable flows, we present an economics-based method for deciding the optimal rates at which vehicles are allowed to enter a highway. It exploits the naturally occuring fluctuations of traffic flow and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Bernardo A. Huberman , Dirk Helbing

We consider the problem of optimal transportation with general cost between a empirical measure and a general target probability on R d , with d $\ge$ 1. We extend results in [19] and prove asymptotic stability of both optimal transport…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Eustasio del Barrio , Alberto González-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes

This paper proposes a new stochastic model of traffic dynamics in Lagrangian coordinates. The source of uncertainty is heterogeneity in driving behavior, captured using driver-specific speed-spacing relations, i.e., parametric uncertainty.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Fangfang Zheng , Saif Eddin Jabari , Henry X. Liu , DianChao Lin

This work originates from a heart's images tracking which is to generate an apparent continuous motion, observable through intensity variation from one starting image to an ending one both supposed segmented. Given two images p0 and p1, we…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2010-09-20 Olivier Besson , Martine Picq , Jérôme Pousin

We present new geometric intuition on dynamical versions of regularized optimal transport. We introduce two families of variational problems on Riemannian manifolds which contain analogues of the Schr\"odinger bridge problem and the Yasue…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-24 Flavien Léger

Equations for a perfect fluid can be obtained by means of the variational principle both in the Lagrangian description and in the Eulerian one. It is known that we need additional fields somehow to describe a rotational isentropic flow in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2010-10-27 Hiroki Fukagawa , Youhei Fujitani

One of the main objectives of science is the recognition of a general pattern in a particular phenomenon in some particular regime. In this work, this is achieved with the analytical expression for the optimal protocol that minimizes the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-03 Pierre Nazé

Starting from the instability diagram of a traffic flow model, we derive conditions for the occurrence of congested traffic states, their appearance, their spreading in space and time, and the related increase in travel times. We discuss…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-10-26 Dirk Helbing , Martin Treiber , Arne Kesting , Martin Schönhof

In this paper, we investigate nonlinear stability of planar steady Euler flows related to least energy solutions of the Lane-Emden equation in a smooth bounded domain. We prove the orbital stability of these flows in terms of both the $L^s$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Guodong Wang

Efficient path planning for autonomous mobile robots is a critical problem across numerous domains, where optimizing both time and energy consumption is paramount. This paper introduces a novel methodology that considers the dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Víctor C. da S. Campos , Armando A. Neto , Douglas G. Macharet

Motivated by optimal re-balancing of a portfolio, we formalize an optimal transport problem in which the transported mass is scaled by a mass-change factor depending on the source and destination. This allows direct modeling of the creation…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-10-07 Gabriela Kováčová , Georg Menz , Niket Patel

In its most general form, the optimal transport problem is an infinite-dimensional optimization problem, yet certain notable instances admit closed-form solutions. We identify the common source of this tractability as \textit{symmetry} and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Bahar Taskesen

Following [21, 23], the present work investigates a new relative entropy-regularized algorithm for solving the optimal transport on a graph problem within the randomized shortest paths formalism. More precisely, a unit flow is injected into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sylvain Courtain , Guillaume Guex , Ilkka Kivimaki , Marco Saerens

We analyzed the stability of the uniform flow solution in the optimal velocity model for traffic and granular flow under the open boundary condition. It was demonstrated that, even within the linearly unstable region, there is a parameter…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Namiko Mitarai , Hiizu Nakanishi

We face the well-posedness of linear transport Cauchy problems $$\begin{cases}\dfrac{\partial u}{\partial t} + b\cdot\nabla u + c\,u = f&(0,T)\times{\mathbb R}^n\\u(0,\cdot)=u_0\in L^\infty&{\mathbb R}^n\end{cases}$$ under borderline…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-17 Albert Clop , Renjin Jiang , Joan Mateu , Joan Orobitg

The classical problem of optimal transportation can be formulated as a linear optimization problem on a convex domain: among all joint measures with fixed marginals find the optimal one, where optimality is measured against a cost function.…

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