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Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2020-10-30 Eric A. Carlen , Jan Maas

In this paper, we prove a structure theorem for discrete optimal transportation plans. We show that, given any pair of discrete probability measures and a cost function, there exists an optimal transportation plan that can be expressed as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Gennaro Auricchio , Marco Veneroni

We determine the optimal structure of couplings for the \emph{Martingale transport problem} between radially symmetric initial and terminal laws $\mu, \nu$ on $\R^d$ and show the uniqueness of optimizer. Here optimality means that such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-25 Tongseok Lim

In the first part of this doctoral thesis we develop a regularity theory for a polyconvex functional in compressible elasticity. In the second part, we will concentrate on uniqueness questions in various situations of finite elasticity.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-10-27 Marcel Dengler

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 study statistical inference for the optimal transport (OT) map (also known as the Brenier map) from a known absolutely continuous reference distribution onto an unknown finitely discrete target distribution. We derive limit distributions…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Ritwik Sadhu , Ziv Goldfeld , Kengo Kato

We prove a sharp global $W^{2,\,p}$ estimate for potentials of optimal transport maps that take a certain class of non-convex planar domains to convex ones.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Connor Mooney , Arghya Rakshit

In this paper, we investigate the optimal transport problem when the source is a non-convex polygonal domain in $\mathbb{R}^2$. We show a global $W^{2,1+\epsilon}$ estimate for potentials of optimal transport. Our method applies to a more…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Shengnan Hu , Yuanyuan Li

We show that a class of Poincar\'e-Wirtinger inequalities on bounded convex sets can be obtained by means of the dynamical formulation of Optimal Transport. This is a consequence of a more general result valid for convex sets, possibly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Lorenzo Brasco , Filippo Santambrogio

We show that, on a $2$-dimensional compact manifold, the optimal transport map in the semi-discrete random matching problem is well-approximated in the $L^2$-norm by identity plus the gradient of the solution to the Poisson problem $-\Delta…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Luigi Ambrosio , Federico Glaudo , Dario Trevisan

We study an approximate controllability problem for the continuity equation and its application to constructing transport maps with normalizing flows. Specifically, we construct time-dependent controls $\theta=(w, a, b)$ in the vector field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Antonio Álvarez-López , Borjan Geshkovski , Domènec Ruiz-Balet

We study perturbations of random dynamical systems whose associated transfer operators admit a uniform spectral gap. We provide a $k^{\text{th}}$-order approximation for the invariant density of the associated random dynamical system. We…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-06-18 Toby Taylor-Crush

A variation principle for mass transport in solids is derived that recasts transport coefficients as minima of local thermodynamic average quantities. The result is independent of diffusion mechanism, and applies to amorphous and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-05 Dallas R. Trinkle

Recent advances in large-scale optimal transport have greatly extended its application scenarios in machine learning. However, existing methods either not explicitly learn the transport map or do not support general cost function. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Guansong Lu , Zhiming Zhou , Jian Shen , Cheng Chen , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

We study a simple transport model driven out of equilibrium by reservoirs at the boundaries, corresponding to the hydrodynamic limit of the symmetric simple exclusion process. We show that a nonlocal transformation of densities and currents…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-12-03 Julien Tailleur , Jorge Kurchan , Vivien Lecomte

We consider linear and nonlinear transport equations with irregular velocity fields, motivated by models coming from mean field games. The velocity fields are assumed to increase in each coordinate, and the divergence therefore fails to be…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-13 Pierre-Louis Lions , Benjamin Seeger

Under mild regularity assumptions, the transport problem is stable in the following sense: if a sequence of optimal transport plans $\pi_1, \pi_2, \ldots$ converges weakly to a transport plan $\pi$, then $\pi$ is also optimal (between its…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-12-22 Julio Backhoff-Veraguas , Gudmund Pammer

We review two models of optimal transport, where congestion effects during the transport can be possibly taken into account. The first model is Beckmann's one, where the transport activities are modeled by vector fields with given…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-25 Lorenzo Brasco , Mircea Petrache

We show that the generalized diffusion coefficient of a subdiffusive intermittent map is a fractal function of control parameters. A modified continuous time random walk theory yields its coarse functional form and correctly describes a…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 N. Korabel , A. V. Chechkin , R. Klages , I. M. Sokolov , V. Yu. Gonchar

We derive a boundary monotonicity formula for a class of biharmonic maps with Dirichlet boundary conditions. A monotonicity formula is crucial in the theory of partial regularity in super-critical dimensions. As a consequence of such a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-10 Serdar Altuntas