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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

This article provides numerical simulation of an optimal transport path from a single source to an atomic measure of equal total mass. We first construct an initial transport path, and then modify the path as much as possible by using both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Qinglan Xia

We investigate the optimal design of networks for a general transport system. Our network is built from a regular two-dimensional ($d=2$) square lattice to be improved by adding long-range connections (shortcuts) with probability $P_{ij}…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-04-24 G. Li , S. D. S. Reis , A. A. Moreira , S. Havlin , H. E. Stanley , J. S. Andrade

As the title suggests, this is the third paper in a series addressing bilevel optimization problems that are governed by the Kantorovich problem of optimal transport. These tasks can be reformulated as mathematical problems with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Sebastian Hillbrecht

In this paper, we introduce a generalized dynamical unbalanced optimal transport framework by incorporating limited control input and mass dissipation, addressing limitations in conventional optimal transport for control applications. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Dongjun Wu , Anders Rantzer

We consider the optimal transportation problem on a globally hyperbolic spacetime with a cost function $c$, which corresponds to the optimal transportation problem on a complete Riemannian manifold where the cost function is given by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-17 Alec Metsch

To realize autonomous shipping, autonomous berthing and unberthing are some of the technical challenges. In the past, numerous research have been done on the optimization of trajectory planning of berthing problems. However, these studies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Yoshiki Miyauchi , Ryohei Sawada , Youhei Akimoto , Naoya Umeda , Atsuo Maki

A variant of the classical optimal transportation problem is: among all joint measures with fixed marginals and which are dominated by a given density, find the optimal one. Existence and uniqueness of solutions to this variant were…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-23 Jonathan Korman , Robert J. McCann

We establish novel quantitative stability results for optimal transport problems with respect to perturbations in the target measure. We provide explicit bounds on the stability of optimal transport potentials and maps, which are relevant…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Octave Mischler , Dario Trevisan

In the regime of bounded transportation costs, additive approximations for the optimal transport problem are reduced (rather simply) to relative approximations for positive linear programs, resulting in faster additive approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Kent Quanrud

Numerical quantum transport calculations are commonly based on a tight-binding formulation. A wide class of quantum transport algorithms requires the tight-binding Hamiltonian to be in the form of a block-tridiagonal matrix. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-05 Michael Wimmer , Klaus Richter

We introduce a convergent finite difference method for solving the optimal transportation problem on the sphere. The method applies to both the traditional squared geodesic cost (arising in mesh generation) and a logarithmic cost (arising…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-11 Brittany Froese Hamfeldt , Axel G. R. Turnquist

In optimal transport, quadratic regularization is an alternative to entropic regularization when sparse couplings or small regularization parameters are desired. Quadratic regularization penalizes transport couplings by the squared $L^2$…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Alberto González-Sanz , Marcel Nutz , Andrés Riveros Valdevenito

In this paper we address the numerical solution of the quadratic optimal transport problem in its dynamical form, the so-called Benamou-Brenier formulation. When solved using interior point methods, the main computational bottleneck is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-22 Enrico Facca , Gabriele Todeschi , Andrea Natale , Michele Benzi

A general problem formulation for energy-efficient traffic engineering for future core networks is presented. Moreover, a distributed heuristic algorithm that provides jointly load balancing and energy efficiency is proposed, approaching in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-07-03 George Athanasiou

In this paper we introduce a new class of finite element discretizations of the quadratic optimal transport problem based on its dynamical formulation. These generalize to the finite element setting the finite difference scheme proposed by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-24 Andrea Natale , Gabriele Todeschi

Most methods of optimal control cannot obtain accurate time-optimal protocols. The quantum brachistochrone equation is an exception, and has the potential to provide accurate time-optimal protocols for essentially any quantum control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Xiaoting Wang , Michele Allegra , Kurt Jacobs , Seth Lloyd , Cosmo Lupo , Masoud Mohseni

This paper presents a unified optimization-based path planning approach to efficiently compute locally optimal solutions to advanced path planning problems. The approach is motivated by first showing that a lattice-based path planner can be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Kristoffer Bergman , Oskar Ljungqvist , Daniel Axehill

This work presents a trajectory planning method based on composite Bernstein polynomials for autonomous systems navigating complex environments. The method is implemented in a symbolic optimization framework that enables continuous paths…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Nick Gorman , Gage MacLin , Maxwell Hammond , Venanzio Cichella

We prove existence and uniqueness results for solutions to a class of optimal transportation problems with infinitely many marginals, supported on the real line. We also provide a characterization of the solution with an explicit formula.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-06-26 Brendan Pass
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