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We analyse an energy minimisation problem recently proposed for modelling smectic-A liquid crystals. The optimality conditions give a coupled nonlinear system of partial differential equations, with a second-order equation for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Jingmin Xia , Patrick E. Farrell

This work is concerned with the efficient optimization method for solving a large class of optimal mass transport problems. An inexact primal-dual algorithm is presented from the time discretization of a proper dynamical system, and by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Jun Hu , Hao Luo , Zihang Zhang

We formulate and solve a class of finite-time transport and mixing problems in the set-oriented framework. The aim is to obtain optimal discrete-time perturbations in nonlinear dynamical systems to transport a specified initial measure on…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-22 Piyush Grover , Karthik Elamvazhuthi

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

Optimization problems with stochastic dominance constraints provide a possibility to shape risk by selecting a benchmark random outcome with a desired distribution. The comparison of the relevant random outcomes to the respective benchmarks…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Darinka Dentcheva , Yunxuan Yi

We introduce and analyze a statistical estimator for Monge transport maps: solutions to the quadratic optimal transport problem in Euclidean space. For absolutely continuous source measures, this map is uniquely defined as the gradient of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Elsa Cazelles , Edouard Pauwels , Léo Portales

We shall present a measure theoretical approach for which together with the Kantorovich duality provide an efficient tool to study the optimal transport problem. Specifically, we study the support of optimal plans where the cost function…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-21 Abbas Moameni

In this paper, we consider nonlinear diffusion processes driven by space-time white noises, which have an interpretation in terms of partial differential equations. For a specific choice of coefficients, they correspond to the Landau…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Joaquin Fontbona , Helene Guerin , Sylvie Meleard

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

Motivated by the problem of optimal portfolio liquidation under transient price impact, we study the minimization of energy functionals with completely monotone displacement kernel under an integral constraint. The corresponding minimizers…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Alexander Schied , Elias Strehle

In this paper we study the three-marginal optimal mass transportation problem for the Coulomb cost on the plane $\R^2$. The key question is the optimality of the so-called Seidl map, first disproved by Colombo and Stra. We generalize the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-12-02 Ugo Bindini , Luigi De Pascale , Anna Kausamo

We study the Bergman determinantal point process from a theoretical point of view motivated by its simulation. We construct restricted and restricted-truncated variants of the Bergman kernel and show optimal transport inequalities involving…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-09 William Driot , Laurent Decreusefond

We consider the entropic regularization of discretized optimal transport and propose to solve its optimality conditions via a logarithmic Newton iteration. We show a quadratic convergence rate and validate numerically that the method…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-12 Christoph Brauer , Christian Clason , Dirk Lorenz , Benedikt Wirth

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new numerical method to solve multi-marginal optimal transport problems with pairwise interaction costs. The complexity of multi-marginal optimal transport generally scales exponentially in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Luca Nenna , Brendan Pass

The control of active colloidal particles via optical traps is a cornerstone for research of matter at the micron and nanometer scale. A central challenge in this domain is the derivation of optimal transport protocols that minimize the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-19 Utkarsh Maurya , Kavya Swaminathan , Ejaz Ashraf , Rajesh Singh

We consider optimal control problems for discrete-time random dynamical systems, finding unique perturbations that provoke maximal responses of statistical properties of the system. We treat systems whose transfer operator has an $L^2$…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Fadi Antown , Gary Froyland , Stefano Galatolo

In this paper, we address the numerical solution of the Optimal Transport Problem on undirected weighted graphs, taking the shortest path distance as transport cost. The optimal solution is obtained from the long-time limit of the gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-29 Enrico Facca , Michele Benzi

We introduce a new framework for efficient sampling from complex probability distributions, using a combination of optimal transport maps and the Metropolis-Hastings rule. The core idea is to use continuous transportation to transform…

Computation · Statistics 2019-06-11 Matthew Parno , Youssef Marzouk

We study a finite-horizon stochastic control criterion for non-convex optimization in which Brownian exploration is balanced against a quadratic control cost. Rather than emphasizing the classical Hopf--Cole representation, we isolate the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Qin Li , Sixu Li , Eitan Tadmor , Emmanuel Trélat

We propose a MINRES-based Newton-type algorithm for solving unconstrained nonconvex optimization problems. Our approach uses the minimal residual method (MINRES), a well-known solver for indefinite symmetric linear systems, to compute…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Hanfeng Zeng , Yang Liu , Wenqing Ouyang , Andre Milzarek