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Optimal transportation between hypersurfaces bounding some strictly convex domains

Differential Geometry 2015-07-10 v1

Abstract

Let M,NM,N be two smooth compact hypersurfaces of Rn\mathbb{R}^n which bound strictly convex domains equipped with two absolutely continuous measures μ\mu and ν\nu (with respect to the volume measures of MM and NN). We consider the optimal transportation from μ\mu to ν\nu for the quadratic cost. Let (ϕ:mR,ψ:NR)(\phi:m \to \mathbb{R},\psi:N \to \mathbb{R}) be some functions which achieve the supremum in the Kantorovich formulation of the problem and which satisfy ψ(y)=infzM(12yz2φ(z));φ(x)=infzN(12xz2ψ(z)). \psi (y) = \inf_{z\in M} \Bigl( \frac{1}{2}|y-z|^2 -\varphi(z)\Bigr); \varphi (x)=\inf_{z\in N} \Bigl( \frac{1}{2}|x-z|^2 -\psi(z)\Bigr). Define for yNy \in N, φ(y)=supzM(12yz2φ(z)).\varphi^\Box(y) = \sup_{z\in M} \Bigl( \frac{1}{2}|y-z|^2 -\varphi(z)\Bigr). In this short paper, we exhibit a relationship between the regularity of φ\varphi^\Box and the existence of a solution to the Monge problem.

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@article{arxiv.1507.02489,
  title  = {Optimal transportation between hypersurfaces bounding some strictly convex domains},
  author = {Emmanuel Humbert and Luc Molinet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.02489},
  year   = {2015}
}
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