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On global H\"older estimates for optimal transportation

Functional Analysis 2010-01-12 v4 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

We generalize a well-known result of L. Caffarelli on Lipschitz estimates for optimal transportation TT between uniformly log-concave probability measures. Let T:RdRdT : \R^d \to \R^d be an optimal transportation pushing forward μ=eVdx\mu = e^{-V}dx to ν=eWdx\nu = e^{-W}dx. Assume that 1) the second differential quotient of VV can be estimated from above by a power function, 2) modulus of convexity of WW can be estimated from below by Aqx1+qA_q |x|^{1+q}, q1q \ge 1. Under these assumptions we show that TT is globally H\"older with a dimension-free coefficient. In addition, we study optimal transportation TT between μ\mu and the uniform measure on a bounded convex set KRdK \subset \R^d. We get estimates for the Lipschitz constant of TT in terms of dd, diam(K){diam(K)} and DV,D2VD V, D^2 V.

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@article{arxiv.0810.5043,
  title  = {On global H\"older estimates for optimal transportation},
  author = {Alexander V. Kolesnikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.5043},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

18 pages, a wrong Remark is removed

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