Special Session 74: Local and Nonlocal Fully Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations of Elliptic and Parabolic Type

Perturbative Results for Parabolic Optimal Transport

Farhan Abedin
Lafayette College
USA
Co-Author(s):    Jun Kitagawa
Abstract:
I will present results on a parabolic flow of Monge-Ampere type whose solution converges in the infinite-time limit to the Kantorovich potential of the optimal transport problem. Existing results pertaining to this flow assume the so-called Ma-Trudinger-Wang (MTW) regularity criterion on the cost function. I will discuss joint work with Jun Kitagawa (Michigan State University) where we show that, even when the MTW condition fails by a quantitative amount, the parabolic Monge-Ampere equation still exhibits desirable asymptotic behavior in the infinite-time limit.