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Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 Hua Jiang , Haiwen Liu , Ji Feng , Qingfeng Sun , X. C. Xie

The optimal transport (OT) problem aims to find the most efficient mapping between two probability distributions under a given cost function, and has diverse applications in many fields such as machine learning, computer vision and computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yan Bin Ng , Xianfeng Gu

We introduce a constrained optimal transport problem where origins $x$ can only be transported to destinations $y\geq x$. Our statistical motivation is to describe the sharp upper bound for the variance of the treatment effect $Y-X$ given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-22 Marcel Nutz , Ruodu Wang

We obtain the sharp version of the uncertainty principle recently introduced in [47], and improved by [13], relating the size of the zero set of a continuous function having zero mean and the optimal transport cost between the mass of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Fabio Cavalletti , Sara Farinelli

This article revolves around shape and topology optimization, in the applicative context where the objective and constraint functionals depend on the solution to a physical boundary value problem posed on the optimized domain. We introduce…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Charles Dapogny , Bruno Levy , Edouard Oudet

We study optimal transportation with the quadratic cost function in geodesic metric spaces satisfying suitable non-branching assumptions. We introduce and study the notions of slope along curves and along geodesics and we apply the latter…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-23 Luigi Ambrosio , Tapio Rajala

A maximum principle for C^0 null hypersurfaces is obtained and used to derive a splitting theorem for spacetimes which contain null lines. As a consequence of this null splitting theorem, it is proved that an asymptotically simple vacuum…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Gregory J. Galloway

We study an optimization problem related to the approximation of given data by a linear combination of transformed modes. In the simplest case, the optimization problem reduces to a minimization problem well-studied in the context of proper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Felix Black , Philipp Schulze , Benjamin Unger

We propose a volumetric formulation for computing the Optimal Transport problem defined on surfaces in $\mathbb{R}^3$, found in disciplines like optics, computer graphics, and computational methodologies. Instead of directly tackling the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Richard Tsai , Axel G. R. Turnquist

We consider the optimal transport problem over convex costs arising from optimal control of linear time-invariant(LTI) systems when the initial and target measures are assumed to be supported on the set of equilibrium points of the LTI…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Karthik Elamvazhuthi , Matt Jacobs

We analyze a quantum version of the Monge--Kantorovich optimal transport problem. The quantum transport cost related to a Hermitian cost matrix $C$ is minimized over the set of all bipartite coupling states $\rho^{AB}$ with fixed reduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Sam Cole , Michał Eckstein , Shmuel Friedland , Karol Życzkowski

The optimal mass transportation was introduced by Monge some 200 years ago and is, today, the source of large number of results in analysis, geometry and convexity. Here I investigate a new, surprising link between optimal transformations…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2010-10-19 Gershon Wolansky

We study the information geometry of $\bcc$-divergences from families of costs of the form $\mathsf{c}(x, \barx) =\mathsf{u}(x^{\mathfrak{t}}\barx)$ through the optimal transport point of view. Here, $\mathsf{u}$ is a scalar function with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Du Nguyen

We study the sample complexity of entropic optimal transport in high dimensions using computationally efficient plug-in estimators. We significantly advance the state of the art by establishing dimension-free, parametric rates for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-28 Philippe Rigollet , Austin J. Stromme

The complete set of transport coefficients for two dimensional relativistic degenerate gases is derived within a relaxation approximation in kinetic theory, by considering both the particle and energy frames. A thorough comparison between…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-10-08 A. R. Mendez , A. L. Garcia-Perciante , G. Chacon-Acosta

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 introduce a new non-linear optimal transport formulation for a pair of probability measures on $\mathbb{R}^d$ sharing a common barycentre, in which admissible transference plans satisfy two martingale-type constraints. This bi-martingale…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Karol Bołbotowski

We show that in any complete metric space the probability measures $\mu$ with compact and connected support are the ones having the property that the optimal tranportation distance to any other probability measure $\nu$ living on the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-08-24 Heikki Jylhä , Tapio Rajala

We study the most common image and informal description of the optimal transport problem for quadratic cost, also known as the second boundary value problem for the Monge--Amp\`{e}re equation -- What is the most efficient way to fill a hole…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-12 Yash Jhaveri , Ovidiu Savin

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