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We study couplings $q^\bullet$ of two equivariant random measures $\lambda^\bullet$ and $\mu^\bullet$ on a Riemannian manifold $(M,d,m)$. Given a cost function we ask for minimizers of the mean transportation cost per volume. In case the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-06-19 Martin Huesmann

We introduce a new approach to Monge-Ampere geometry based on techniques from higher symplectic geometry. Our work is motivated by the application of Monge-Ampere geometry to the Poisson equation for the pressure that arises for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 Lewis Napper , Ian Roulstone , Vladimir Rubtsov , Martin Wolf

A fundamental result of thermodynamic geometry is that the optimal, minimal-work protocol that drives a nonequilibrium system between two thermodynamic states in the slow-driving limit is given by a geodesic of the friction tensor, a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-24 Adrianne Zhong , Michael R. DeWeese

In this paper we extend recent developments in computational optimal transport to the setting of Riemannian manifolds. In particular, we show how to learn optimal transport maps from samples that relate probability distributions defined on…

We consider the optimal mass transportation problem in $\RR^d$ with measurably parameterized marginals, for general cost functions and under conditions ensuring the existence of a unique optimal transport map. We prove a joint measurability…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-09-09 Joaquin Fontbona , Helene Guerin , Sylvie Meleard

We introduce a Benamou-Brenier formulation for the continuous-time martingale optimal transport problem as a weak length relaxation of its discrete-time counterpart. By the correspondence between classical martingale problems and…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-29 Martin Huesmann , Dario Trevisan

Let (X,L) be a (semi-) polarized complex projective variety and T a real torus acting holomorphically on X with moment polytope P. Given a probability density g on P we introduce a new type of Monge-Ampere measure on X, defined for singular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-02-03 Robert J. Berman , David Witt Nystrom

The study of reflector surfaces in geometric optics necessitates the analysis of certain nonlinear equations of Monge-Amp\`ere type known as generated Jacobian equations. These equations, whose general existence theory has been recently…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-13 Nestor Guillen , Jun Kitagawa

We establish a connection between Optimal Transport Theory and classical Convection Theory for geophysical flows. Our starting point is the model designed few years ago by Angenent, Haker and Tannenbaum to solve some Optimal Transport…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-13 Yann Brenier

We study an optimal transport problem where, at some intermediate time, the mass is accelerated by either an external force field, or self-interacting. We obtain regularity of the velocity potential, intermediate density, and optimal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Jiakun Liu , Grégoire Loeper

This paper surveys recent applications of methods from the theory of optimal transport to econometric problems.

General Economics · Economics 2021-02-04 Alfred Galichon

Optimal transport provides an inherently geometric and highly structured framework for studying spaces of probability measures, supplying a rich theoretical toolkit for contemporary statistics, machine learning, and generative modelling. In…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Riccardo Passeggeri , Rohan M. Shenoy , Pengcheng Ye

In this paper, Monge-Kantorovich problem is considered in the infinite dimension on an abstract Wiener space $(W, H,\mu)$, where $H$ is Cameron-Martin space and $\mu$ is the Gaussian measure. We study the regularity of optimal transport…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Mine Caglar , Ihsan Demirel

The Monge-Kantorovich transportation problem involves optimizing with respect to a given a cost function. Uniqueness is a fundamental open question about which little is known when the cost function is smooth and the landscapes containing…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-08-27 Najma Ahmad , Hwa Kil Kim , Robert J. McCann

Over the past five years, multi-marginal optimal transport, a generalization of the well known optimal transport problem of Monge and Kantorovich, has begun to attract considerable attention, due in part to a wide variety of emerging…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-09-12 Brendan Pass

This paper is a natural companion of [Alekseevsky D.V., Alonso Blanco R., Manno G., Pugliese F., Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble) 62 (2012), 497-524, arXiv:1003.5177], generalising its perspectives and results to the context of third-order…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-05-11 Gianni Manno , Giovanni Moreno

We present three novel forms of the Monge-Ampere equation, which is used, e.g., in image processing and in reconstruction of mass transportation in the primordial Universe. The central role in this paper is played by our Fourier integral…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 V. Zheligovsky , O. Podvigina , U. Frisch

We rephrase Monge's optimal transportation (OT) problem with quadratic cost--via a Monge-Amp\`ere equation--as an infinite-dimensional optimization problem, which is in fact a convex problem when the target is a log-concave measure with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Michael Lindsey , Yanir A. Rubinstein

We describe a family of generalized almost structures associated with a Monge-Amp\`ere equation for a stream function of 2D incompressible fluid flows. Using an indefinite metric field constructed from a pair of $2$-forms related to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-08 Radek Suchánek

In this paper, we explore some connections between Kobayashi geometry and the Dirichlet problem for the complex Monge--Amp\`ere equation. Among the results we obtain through these connections are: $(i)$~a theorem on the continuous extension…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Gautam Bharali , Rumpa Masanta
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