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Given two probability measures $\mu$ and $\nu$ we consider a mass transportation mapping $T$ satisfying 1) $T$ sends $\mu$ to $\nu$, 2) $T$ has the form $T = \phi \frac{\nabla \phi}{|\nabla \phi|}$, where $\phi$ is a function with convex…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-27 Alexander V. Kolesnikov

Optimal transport (OT) is a popular and powerful tool for comparing probability measures. However, OT suffers a few drawbacks: (i) input measures required to have the same mass, (ii) a high computational complexity, and (iii) indefiniteness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Tam Le , Truyen Nguyen , Kenji Fukumizu

We show that for a metric space with an even number of points there is a 1-Lipschitz map to a tree-like space with the same matching number. This result gives the first basic version of an unoriented Kantorovich duality. The study of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-22 Mircea Petrache , Roger Züst

This paper concerns the reconstruction of a scalar coefficient of a second-order elliptic equation in divergence form posed on a bounded domain from internal data. This theory finds applications in multi-wave imaging, greedy methods to…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Faouzi Triki , Tao Yin

In this paper we analyze a mass transportation problem in a bounded domain with the possibility to transport mass to/from the boundary, paying the transport cost, that is given by the Euclidean distance plus an extra cost depending on the…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-28 Samer Dweik

We study the connection between the concavity properties of a measure $\nu$ and the convexity properties of the associated relative entropy $D(\cdot \Vert \nu)$ along optimal transport. As a corollary we prove a new dimensional…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Gautam Aishwarya , Liran Rotem

Solutions to Monge-Kantorovich equations, expressing optimality condition in mass transportation problem with cost equal to distance, are stationary points of a critical-slope model for sand surface evolution. Using a dual variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Leonid Prigozhin

A longstanding question in the dual Brunn-Minkowski theory is what are the dual analogues of Federer's curvature measures for convex bodies. The answer to this is provided. This leads naturally to dual versions of Minkowski-type problems,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Yong Huang , Erwin Lutwak , Deane Yang , Gaoyong Zhang

We discuss transportation cost inequalities for uniform measures on convex bodies, and connections with other geometric and functional inequalities. In particular, we show how transportation inequalities can be applied to the slicing…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-08 Mark W. Meckes

In the semi-discrete version of Monge's problem one tries to find a transport map $T$ with minimum cost from an absolutely continuous measure $\mu$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$ to a discrete measure $\nu$ that is supported on a finite set in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-23 Valentin Hartmann

We consider the multidimensional Monge-Kantrovich transport problem in an abstract setting. Our main results state that if a cost function and marginal measures are invariant by a family of transformations, then a solution of the Kantrovich…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-04-22 Abbas Moameni

We develop a synthetic, variational framework for deriving comparison principles in infinite-dimensional Banach spaces. Unlike traditional approaches that rely on the regularity of minimizers and Euler--Lagrange equations, our method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-01 Flavien Léger , Maxime Sylvestre

In this paper, we introduce weak optimal entropy transport problems that cover both optimal entropy transport problems and weak optimal transport problems introduced by Liero, Mielke, and Savar\'{e} [27]; and Gozlan, Roberto, Samson and…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Nhan-Phu Chung , Thanh-Son Trinh

We discuss a new notion of distance on the space of finite and nonnegative measures which can be seen as a generalization of the well-known Kantorovich-Wasserstein distance. The new distance is based on a dynamical formulation given by an…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Matthias Liero , Alexander Mielke , Giuseppe Savaré

We present a new ansatz space for the general symmetric multi-marginal Kantorovich optimal transport problem on finite state spaces which reduces the number of unknowns from $\tbinom{N+\ell-1}{\ell-1}$ to $\ell\cdot(N+1)$, where $\ell$ is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-01-03 G. Friesecke , D. Vögler

The aim of this paper is to prove isoperimetric inequalities on submanifolds of the Euclidean space using mass transportation methods. We obtain a sharp ?weighted isoperimetric inequality? and a nonsharp classical inequality similar to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-11-25 Philippe Castillon

We propose a general framework of mass transport between vector-valued measures, which will be called simultaneous optimal transport (SOT). The new framework is motivated by the need to transport resources of different types simultaneously,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-12-23 Ruodu Wang , Zhenyuan Zhang

Symmetric Monge-Kantorovich transport problems involving a cost function given by a family of vector fields were used by Ghoussoub-Moameni to establish polar decompositions of such vector fields into $m$-cyclically monotone maps composed…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-10 Nassif Ghoussoub , Bernard Maurey

We use mass-transportation as a tool to compare surfaces (2-manifolds). In particular, we determine the "similarity" of two given surfaces by solving a mass-transportation problem between their conformal densities. This mass transportation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-03-19 Y. Lipman , I. Daubechies

We consider the space of probability measures on a discrete set $X$, endowed with a dynamical optimal transport metric. Given two probability measures supported in a subset $Y \subseteq X$, it is natural to ask whether they can be connected…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-01 Matthias Erbar , Jan Maas , Melchior Wirth