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This paper deals with the large-scale behaviour of dynamical optimal transport on $\mathbb{Z}^d$-periodic graphs with general lower semicontinuous and convex energy densities. Our main contribution is a homogenisation result that describes…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-29 Peter Gladbach , Eva Kopfer , Jan Maas , Lorenzo Portinale

In this paper we investigate the ability of some recently introduced discrete kinetic models of vehicular traffic to catch, in their large time behavior, typical features of theoretical fundamental diagrams. Specifically, we address the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-25 Luisa Fermo , Andrea Tosin

We study an optimal transport problem in a compact convex set $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^d$ where bulk transport is coupled to dynamic optimal transport on a metric graph $ \mathsf{G} = (\mathsf{V},\mathsf{E})$ which is embedded in $\Omega$.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-19 Marcello Carioni , Juliane Krautz , Jan-F. Pietschmann

We study traffic flow on roads with a localized periodic inhomogeneity such as traffic signals, using a stochastic car-following model. We find that in cases of congestion, traffic flow can be optimized by controlling the inhomogeneity's…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elad Tomer , Leonid Safonov , Nilly Madar , Shlomo Havlin

We present a definition of stochastic Hamiltonian process on finite graph via its corresponding density dynamics in Wasserstein manifold. We demonstrate the existence of stochastic Hamiltonian process in many classical discrete problems,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-01-22 Jianbo Cui , Shu liu , Haomin Zhou

The diffusion of molecules in complex intracellular environments can be strongly influenced by spatial heterogeneity and stochasticity. A key challenge when modelling such processes using stochastic random walk frameworks is that negative…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 Elliot J. Carr , Matthew J. Simpson

We prove discrete-to-continuum convergence for dynamical optimal transport on $\mathbb{Z}^d$-periodic graphs with energy density having linear growth at infinity. This result provides an answer to a problem left open by Gladbach, Kopfer,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Lorenzo Portinale , Filippo Quattrocchi

We study the homogenization of a linear kinetic equation which models the evolution of the density of charged particles submitted to a highly oscillating electric field. The electric field and the initial density are assumed to be random…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-12-08 Anne-Laure Dalibard

We investigate different turnpike phenomena of generalized discrete-time stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problems. Our analysis is based on a novel strict dissipativity notion for such problems, in which a stationary stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-29 Jonas Schießl , Ruchuan Ou , Timm Faulwasser , Michael Heinrich Baumann , Lars Grüne

In this paper we study homogenization of a class of control problems in a stationary and ergodic random environment. This problem has been mostly studied in the calculus of variations setting in connection to the homogenization of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Alexander Van-Brunt

Semidiscrete optimal transport is a challenging generalization of the classical transportation problem in linear programming. The goal is to design a joint distribution for two random variables (one continuous, one discrete) with fixed…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-01-22 Yinchu Zhu , Ilya O. Ryzhov

We study multi-marginal optimal transport problems from a probabilistic graphical model perspective. We point out an elegant connection between the two when the underlying cost for optimal transport allows a graph structure. In particular,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-26 Isabel Haasler , Rahul Singh , Qinsheng Zhang , Johan Karlsson , Yongxin Chen

We study a continuum model of dislocation transport in order to investigate the formation of heterogeneous dislocation patterns. We propose a physical mechanism which relates the formation of heterogeneous patterns to the dynamics of a…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-29 Ronghai Wu , Daniel Tüzes , Péter Dusán Ispánovity , István Groma , Michael Zaiser

We consider the optimal transport problem between multivariate Gaussian stationary stochastic processes. The transportation effort is the variance of the filtered discrepancy process. The main contribution of this technical note is to show…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Mattia Zorzi

This paper is about the construction of displacement interpolations on a discrete metric graph. Our approach is based on the approximation of any optimal transport problem whose cost function is a distance on a discrete graph by a sequence…

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In this paper, we consider a discrete-time stochastic control problem with uncertain initial and target states. We first discuss the connection between optimal transport and stochastic control problems of this form. Next, we formulate a…

Optimal transport is the problem of designing a joint distribution for two random variables with fixed marginals. In virtually the entire literature on this topic, the objective is to minimize expected cost. This paper is the first to study…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-02-13 Yinchu Zhu , Ilya O. Ryzhov

This paper deals with the large-scale behaviour of nonlinear minimum-cost flow problems on random graphs. In such problems, a random nonlinear cost functional is minimised among all flows (discrete vector-fields) with a prescribed net flux…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-27 Peter Gladbach , Jan Maas , Lorenzo Portinale

We analyze transport on a graph with multiple constraints and where the weight of the edges connecting the nodes is a dynamical variable. The network dynamics results from the interplay between a nonlinear function of the flow, dissipation,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-28 Frederic Folz , Kurt Mehlhorn , Giovanna Morigi

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
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