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We link the theory of optimal transportation to the theory of integer partitions. Let $\mathscr P(n)$ denote the set of integer partitions of $n \in \mathbb N$ and write partitions $\pi \in \mathscr P(n)$ as $(n_1, \dots, n_{k(\pi)})$.…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-04-07 Sonja Hohloch

We introduce a non-quadratic generalization of the quantum mechanical optimal transport problem introduced in [De Palma and Trevisan, Ann. Henri Poincar\'e, {\bf 22} (2021), 3199-3234] where quantum channels realize the transport. Relying…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Gergely Bunth , József Pitrik , Tamás Titkos , Dániel Virosztek

We develop a discrete optimal transport framework for analyzing simulated annealing algorithms on finite state spaces. Building on the discrete Wasserstein metric introduced by Maas (J. Funct. Anal., 2011), we define a generalized discrete…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yuchen He , Tianhui Jiang , Sihan Wang , Chihao Zhang

Controlling the $\mathcal W_\infty$ Wasserstein distance by the $\mathcal W_p$ Wasserstein distance is interesting both for theorical and numerical applications. A first paper on this problem was written several years ago [3]. Some year…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-22 Luigi De Pascale , Igor Pinheiro

Let $\mu$ = ($\mu$t)t$\in$R be a 1-parameter family of probability measures on R. In [11] we introduced its ``Markov-quantile''process: a process X= (Xt)t$\in$R that resembles as much as possible the quantile process attached to $\mu$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Charles Boubel , Nicolas Juillet

We introduce dynamic and static formulations that formally extend unbalanced optimal transport from the space of positive densities to the space of Riemannian metrics. The first construction is based on a dynamic variational formulation in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-27 Martin Bauer , Peter W. Michor , François-Xavier Vialard

We study the equivalence between the weighted least gradient problem and the weighted Beckmann minimal flow problem or equivalently, the optimal transport problem with Riemannian cost. Thanks to this equivalence, we prove existence and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Samer Dweik , Wojciech Górny

This work studies an explicit embedding of the set of probability measures into a Hilbert space, defined using optimal transport maps from a reference probability density. This embedding linearizes to some extent the 2-Wasserstein space,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-05 Quentin Mérigot , Alex Delalande , Frédéric Chazal

We consider the problem of finding an optimal transport plan between an absolutely continuous measure $\mu$ on $\mathcal{X} \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ and a finitely supported measure $\nu$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$ when the transport cost is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-08 Valentin Hartmann , Dominic Schuhmacher

In this essay, we discuss the notion of optimal transport on geodesic measure spaces and the associated (2-)Wasserstein distance. We then examine displacement convexity of the entropy functional on the space of probability measures. In…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-17 Otis Chodosh

In this paper we study two basic facts of optimal transportation on Wiener space W. Our first aim is to answer to the Monge Problem on the Wiener space endowed with the Sobolev type norm (k,gamma) to the power of p (cases p = 1 and p > 1…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-01-25 Vincent Nolot

We prove a Central Limit Theorem for the empirical optimal transport cost, $\sqrt{\frac{nm}{n+m}}\{\mathcal{T}_c(P_n,Q_m)-\mathcal{T}_c(P,Q)\}$, in the semi discrete case, i.e when the distribution $P$ is supported in $N$ points, but…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Eustasio del Barrio , Alberto González-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes

We study the optimal partition problem for the prescribed constant $Q$-curvature equation induced by the higher order conformal operators under the effect of cohomogeneity one actions on Einstein manifolds with positive scalar curvature.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-12 Juan Carlos Fernández , Oscar Palmas , Jonatán Torres Orozco

We investigate here the optimal transportation problem on configuration space for the quadratic cost. It is shown that, as usual, provided that the corresponding Wasserstein is finite, there exists one unique optimal measure and that this…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 L. Decreusefond

In this paper we investigate the numerical approximation of an analogue of the Wasserstein distance for optimal transport on graphs that is defined via a discrete modification of the Benamou--Brenier formula. This approach involves the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-07-24 Matthias Erbar , Martin Rumpf , Bernhard Schmitzer , Stefan Simon

We study linear and nonlinear PDEs defined on the space of $\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{T}^d)$ over the flat torus $\mathbb{T}^d$, equipped with the Dirichlet-Ferguson measure $\mathcal{D}$. We first develop an analytic framework based on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-06 François Delarue , Mattia Martini , Giacomo Enrico Sodini

This work establishes a framework for solving inverse boundary problems with the geodesic based quadratic Wasserstein distance ($W_{2}$). A general form of the Fr\'echet gradient is systematically derived by optimal transportation (OT)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Gang Bao , Yixuan Zhang

In this work we introduce the concept of Bures-Wasserstein barycenter $Q_*$, that is essentially a Fr\'echet mean of some distribution $\mathbb{P}$ supported on a subspace of positive semi-definite Hermitian operators $\mathbb{H}_{+}(d)$.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Alexey Kroshnin , Vladimir Spokoiny , Alexandra Suvorikova

The optimal transport barycenter (a.k.a. Wasserstein barycenter) is a fundamental notion of averaging that extends from the Euclidean space to the Wasserstein space of probability distributions. Computation of the unregularized barycenter…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-27 Kaheon Kim , Rentian Yao , Changbo Zhu , Xiaohui Chen

We are interested in the following two $\mathbb{R}^d$-valued stochastic differential equations (SDEs): \begin{gather*} d X_t=b(X_t)\,d t + \sigma\,d L_t, \quad X_0=x, %\label{BM-SDE} d Y_t=b(Y_t)\,d t + \sigma\,d B_t, \quad Y_0=y,…

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