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We study the Lagrangian formulation of a class of the Monge-Kantorovich optimal transportation problem. It can be considered a stochastic optimal transportation problem for absolutely continuous stochastic processes. A cost function and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Toshio Mikami , Haruka Yamamoto

We consider the modified Monge-Kantorovich problem with additional restriction: admissible transport plans must vanish on some fixed functional subspace. Different choice of the subspace leads to different additional properties optimal…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-22 Danila Zaev

We consider the simultaneous optimal transportation of measures, where the target marginal is not necessarily fixed. For this problem, we prove the existence of a solution for completely regular spaces and investigate the structure of the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Kirill Sokolov

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

We study the entropic regularizations of optimal transport problems under suitable summability assumptions on the point-wise transport cost. These summability assumptions already appear in the literature. However, we show that the weakest…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Camilla Brizzi , Luigi De Pascale , Anna Kausamo

We consider the following variant of the Monge-Kantorovich transportation problem. Let S be a finite set of point sites in d dimensions. A bounded set C in d-dimensional space is to be distributed among the sites p in S such that (i) each p…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-18 Darius Geiß , Rolf Klein , Rainer Penninger , Günter Rote

We consider symmetric multi-marginal Kantorovich optimal transport problems on finite state spaces with uniform-marginal constraint. These problems consist of minimizing a linear objective function over a high-dimensional polytope, here…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-10-29 Daniela Vögler

We prove that if $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ is a (not necessarily strictly) convex, $C^1$ domain, and $\mu$ and $\bar{\mu}$ are probability measures absolutely continuous with respect to surface measure on $\partial \Omega$, with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Seonghyeon Jeong , Jun Kitagawa

We discuss the Monge problem of mass transportation in the framework of stochastic thermodynamics and revisit the problem of the Landauer limit for finite-time thermodynamics, a problem that got the interest of Krzysztof Gawedzki in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-16 Jean-Pierre Eckmann , Carlos Mejia-Monasterio

We study Kantorovich type optimal transportation problems with nonlinear cost functions, including dependence on conditional measures of transport plans. A range of nonlinear Kantorovich problems for cost functions of a special form is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-21 Svetlana Popova

A new pairwise cost function is proposed for the optimal transport barycenter problem, adopting the form of the minimal action between two points, with a Lagrangian that takes into account an underlying probability distribution. Under this…

Computation · Statistics 2025-11-11 Zichu Wang , Esteban G. Tabak

As shown in [15], under some structural assumptions, working on congested traffic problems in general and increasingly dense networks leads, at the limit by {\Gamma}-convergence, to continuous minimization problems posed on measures on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Roméo Hatchi

Motivated by optimal re-balancing of a portfolio, we formalize an optimal transport problem in which the transported mass is scaled by a mass-change factor depending on the source and destination. This allows direct modeling of the creation…

Portfolio Management · Quantitative Finance 2025-10-07 Gabriela Kováčová , Georg Menz , Niket Patel

This paper studies the geometry of the optimizer for the optimal transport problem with capacity constraints. We introduce the concept of c-capacity monotonicity, which is a generalization of c-cyclical monotonicity in optimal transport. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-03 Dongwei Chen

In the Monge-Kantorovich transport problem, the transport cost is expressed in terms of transport maps or transport plans, which play crucial roles there. A variant of the Monge-Kantorovich problem is the ramified (branching) transport…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-09 Qinglan Xia , Haotian Sun

A result of Hohloch links the theory of integer partitions with the Monge formulation of the optimal transport problem, giving the optimal transport map between (Young diagrams of) integer partitions and their corresponding symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-17 Daniel Owusu Adu , Daniel Keliher

We study a multi-marginal optimal transportation problem. Under certain conditions on the cost function and the first marginal, we prove that the solution to the relaxed, Kantorovich version of the problem induces a solution to the Monge…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-08-27 Brendan Pass

We consider optimal transportation of measures on metric and topological spaces in the case where the cost function and marginal distributions depend on a parameter with values in a metric space. The Hausdorff distance between the sets of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Vladimir Bogachev , Svetlana Popova

We introduce a novel model based on the discrete optimal transport problem that incorporates congestion costs and replaces traditional constraints with weighted penalization terms. This approach better captures real-world scenarios…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Marcelo Gallardo , Manuel Loaiza , Jorge Chávez

By disintegration of transport plans it is introduced the notion of transport class. This allows to consider the Monge problem as a particular case of the Kantorovich transport problem, once a transport class is fixed. The transport problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-18 L. Granieri , F. Maddalena