A strategy for non-strictly convex transport costs and the example of ║x−y║p in R2

Carlier, Guillaume; Santambrogio, Filippo; de Pascale, Luigi

Carlier, Guillaume; Santambrogio, Filippo; de Pascale, Luigi (2010), A strategy for non-strictly convex transport costs and the example of ║x−y║p in R2, Communications in Mathematical Sciences, 8, 4, p. 931-941. 10.4310/CMS.2010.v8.n4.a8

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Article accepté pour publication ou publié

External document link

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00417303/

Date

2010

Journal name

Communications in Mathematical Sciences

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Number

Publisher

International Press

Pages

931-941

Abstract (EN)

This paper deals with the existence of optimal transport maps for some optimal transport problems with a convex but non strictly convex cost. We give a decomposition strategy to address this issue. As a consequence of our procedure, we have to treat some transport problems, of independent interest, with a convex constraint on the displacement. To illustrate possible results obtained through this general approach, we prove exisence of optimal transport maps in the case where the source measure is absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesque measure and the transportation cost is of the form h(\| x-y\|) with h strictly convex increasing and \|.\| an arbitrary norm in R^2.

Subjects / Keywords

optimal transport; Monge-Kantorovich problem; existence of optimal maps; general norms