English
Related papers

Related papers: Dynamic characterization of barycentric optimal tr…

200 papers

We give a characterization of optimal transport plans for a variant of the usual quadratic transport cost introduced in [33]. Optimal plans are composition of a deterministic transport given by the gradient of a continuously differentiable…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-18 Nathael Gozlan , Nicolas Juillet

We provide a solution to the problem of optimal transport by Brownian martingales in general dimensions whenever the transport cost satisfies certain subharmonic properties in the target variable, as well as a stochastic version of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Nassif Ghoussoub , Young-Heon Kim , Aaron Zeff Palmer

The optimal transport problem is studied in the context of Lorentz-Finsler geometry. For globally hyperbolic Lorentz-Finsler spacetimes the first Kantorovich problem and the Monge problem are solved. Further the intermediate regularity of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-04-20 Stefan Suhr

We show continuity of the martingale optimal transport optimisation problem as a functional of its marginals. This is achieved via an estimate on the projection in the nested/causal Wasserstein distance of an arbitrary coupling on to the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Johannes Wiesel

This note outlines a mean-field approach to dynamic optimal transport problems based on the recently proposed McKean-Pontryagin maximum principle. Key aspects of the proposed methodology include i) avoidance of sampling over stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Sebastian Reich

Finding optimal trajectories for multiple traffic demands in a congested network is a challenging task. Optimal transport theory is a principled approach that has been used successfully to study various transportation problems. Its usage is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-10-10 Abdullahi Adinoyi Ibrahim , Michael Muehlebach , Caterina De Bacco

We completely characterise the optimal solutions for the three-marginal optimal transport problem - introduced in [K. Bolbotowski, G. Bouchitt\'e, Kantorovich-Rubinstein duality theory for the Hessian, 2024, preprint], and whose relaxation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Krzysztof J. Ciosmak

We adapt the problem of continuous congested optimal transport to the Heisenberg group, equipped with a sub-Riemannian metric. Originally introduced in the Euclidean setting by Carlier, Jimenez, and Santambrogio as a path-dependent variant…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Michele Circelli , Giovanna Citti

We study a single-period optimal transport problem on $\mathbb{R}^2$ with a covariance-type cost function $c(x,y) = (x_1-y_1)(x_2-y_2)$ and a backward martingale constraint. We show that a transport plan $\gamma$ is optimal if and only if…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Dmitry Kramkov , Yan Xu

We present a general convex relaxation approach to study a wide class of Unbalanced Optimal Transport problems for finite non-negative measures with possibly different masses. These are obtained as the lower semicontinuous and convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Giuseppe Savaré , Giacomo Enrico Sodini

The classical problem of optimal transportation can be formulated as a linear optimization problem on a convex domain: among all joint measures with fixed marginals find the optimal one, where optimality is measured against a cost function.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-11-29 Jonathan Korman , Robert J. McCann

This paper focuses on martingale optimal transport problems when the martingales are assumed to have bounded quadratic variation. First, we give a result that characterizes the existence of a probability measure satisfying some convex…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-03-18 Erhan Bayraktar , Xin Zhang , Zhou Zhou

A novel methodology is developed for the solution of the data-driven Monge optimal transport barycenter problem, where the pushforward condition is formulated in terms of the statistical independence between two sets of random variables:…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Andrew D. Lipnick , Esteban G. Tabak , Giulio Trigila , Yating Wang , Xuancheng Ye , Wenjun Zhao

In this paper we study continuum-marginal optimal transport. Given a time-continuous family of probability marginals, the problem is to recover the minimum-energy velocity field whose flow reproduces every marginal. This problem is the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Yumiharu Nakano

This article studies problems of optimal transport, by embedding them in a general functional analytic framework of convex optimization. This provides a unified treatment of a large class of related problems in probability theory and allows…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Teemu Pennanen , Ari-Pekka Perkkiö

The optimal weak transport problem has recently been introduced by Gozlan et.\ al. We provide general existence and duality results for these problems on arbitrary Polish spaces, as well as a necessary and sufficient optimality criterion in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Julio Backhoff Veraguas , Mathias Beiglboeck , Gudmund Pammer

In this paper we consider the Benamou-Brenier formulation of optimal transport for nonlinear control affine systems on $\Rd$, removing the compactness assumption of the underlying manifold in previous work by the author. By using Bernard's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-02 Karthik Elamvazhuthi

We study the discretization, convergence, and numerical implementation of recent reformulations of the quadratic porous medium equation (multidimensional and anisotropic) and Burgers' equation (one-dimensional, with optional viscosity), as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Jean-Marie Mirebeau , Erwan Stampfli

We consider the conjecture proposed in Matsumoto, Zhang and Schiebinger (2022) suggesting that optimal transport with quadratic regularisation can be used to construct a graph whose discrete Laplace operator converges to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-02 Gilles Mordant , Stephen Zhang

We present a survey on several mass transportation problems, in which a given mass dynamically moves from an initial configuration to a final one. The approach we consider is the one introduced by Benamou and Brenier in [5], where a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-04-10 Giuseppe Buttazzo