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The Strictly Correlated Electrons (SCE) limit of the Levy-Lieb functional in Density Functional Theory (DFT) gives rise to a symmetric multi-marginal optimal transport problem with Coulomb cost, where the number of marginal laws is equal to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-08 Aurélien Alfonsi , Rafaël Coyaud , Virginie Ehrlacher

The duality theory of the Monge--Kantorovich transport problem is analyzed in a general setting. The spaces $X, Y$ are assumed to be polish and equipped with Borel probability measures $\mu$ and $\nu$. The transport cost function $c:X\times…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-09-07 Mathias Beiglboeck , Christian Leonard , Walter Schachermayer

We consider the strictly correlated electron (SCE) limit of the fermionic quantum many-body problem in the second-quantized formalism. This limit gives rise to a multi-marginal optimal transport (MMOT) problem. Here the marginal state space…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-17 Yuehaw Khoo , Lin Lin , Michael Lindsey , Lexing Ying

A quantum version of the Monge--Kantorovich optimal transport problem is analyzed. The transport cost is minimized over the set of all bipartite coupling states $\rho^{AB}$, such that both of its reduced density matrices $\rho^A$ and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Shmuel Friedland , Michał Eckstein , Sam Cole , Karol Życzkowski

We extend a dimensional upper bound on how much an optimal transport map can degenerate for the quadratic transportation cost, originally due to Caffarelli, to cost functions that satisfy the curvature condition of Ma, Trudinger, and Wang.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-11-28 Young-Heon Kim , Jun Kitagawa

In this work, we show how to obtain for non-compact manifolds the results that have already been done for Monge Transport Problem for costs coming from Tonelli Lagrangians on compact manifolds. In particular, the already known results for a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-11-29 Albert Fathi , Alessio Figalli

We study the complexity of approximating the multimarginal optimal transport (MOT) distance, a generalization of the classical optimal transport distance, considered here between $m$ discrete probability distributions supported each on $n$…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-23 Tianyi Lin , Nhat Ho , Marco Cuturi , Michael I. Jordan

We consider a parabolic version of the mass transport problem, and show that it converges to a solution of the original mass transport problem under suitable conditions on the cost function, and initial and target domains.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-12-15 Jun Kitagawa

In this note, we present a unified approach to the problem of existence of a potential for the optimal transport problem with respect to non-traditional cost functions, that is, costs that assume infinite values. We establish a new method…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Shiri Artstein-Avidan , Shay Sadovsky , Katarzyna Wyczesany

The branched transport problem, a popular recent variant of optimal transport, is a non-convex and non-smooth variational problem on Radon measures. The so-called urban planning problem, on the contrary, is a shape optimization problem that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Julius Lohmann , Bernhard Schmitzer , Benedikt Wirth

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

Building on the results of Ma, Trudinger and Wang \cite{MTW}, and of the author \cite{L5}, we study two problems of optimal transportation on the sphere: the first corresponds to the cost function $d^2(x,y)$, where $d(\cdot,\cdot)$ is the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-29 Gregoire Loeper

We study the optimal transport problem in sub-Riemannian manifolds where the cost function is given by the square of the sub-Riemannian distance. Under appropriate assumptions, we generalize Brenier-McCann's Theorem proving existence and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-10-15 Alessio Figalli , Ludovic Rifford

This paper deals with the existence of optimal transport maps for some optimal transport problems with a convex but non strictly convex cost. We give a decomposition strategy to address this issue. As part of our strategy, we have to treat…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2009-09-16 Guillaume Carlier , Luigi De Pascale , Filippo Santambrogio

We study the equivalence between the weighted least gradient problem and the weighted Beckmann minimal flow problem or equivalently, the optimal transport problem with Riemannian cost. Thanks to this equivalence, we prove existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Samer Dweik , Wojciech Górny

We study the vanishing-regularization limit of entropically regularized optimal transport (EOT) for the Euclidean distance cost $c(x,y)=\|x-y\|$ in dimension $d>1$. We develop a comprehensive variational convergence framework that entails…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Marcel Nutz , Chenyang Zhong

In this work, we develop a new framework for dynamic network flow problems based on optimal transport theory. We show that the dynamic multi-commodity minimum-cost network flow problem can be formulated as a multi-marginal optimal transport…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Isabel Haasler , Axel Ringh , Yongxin Chen , Johan Karlsson

A remarkable connection between optimal design and Monge transport was initiated in the years 1997 in the context of the minimal elastic compliance problem and where the euclidean metric cost was naturally involved. In this paper we present…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Karol Bołbotowski , Guy Bouchitté

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 address the problem of optimal transport with a quadratic cost functional and a constraint on the flux through a constriction along the path. The constriction, conceptually represented by a toll station, limits the flow rate across. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-02 Arthur Stephanovitch , Anqi Dong , Tryphon T. Georgiou