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Existence, duality, and cyclical monotonicity for weak transport costs

2019; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 58; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s00526-019-1624-y

ISSN

1432-0835

Autores

Julio Backhoff‐Veraguas, Mathias Beiglböck, Gudmund Pammer,

Tópico(s)

Point processes and geometric inequalities

Resumo

Abstract The optimal weak transport problem has recently been introduced by Gozlan et al. (J Funct Anal 273(11):3327–3405, 2017). We provide general existence and duality results for these problems on arbitrary Polish spaces, as well as a necessary and sufficient optimality criterion in the spirit of cyclical monotonicity. As an application we extend the Brenier–Strassen Theorem of Gozlan and Juillet (On a mixture of brenier and strassen theorems. arXiv:1808.02681 , 2018) to general probability measures on $$\mathbb {R}^d$$ R d under minimal assumptions. A driving idea behind our proofs is to consider the set of transport plans with a new (‘adapted’) topology which seems better suited for the weak transport problem and allows to carry out arguments which are close to the proofs in the classical setup.

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