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Zap. Nauchn. Sem. POMI, 2011 Volume 390, Pages 147–181 (Mi znsl4549)

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A description of transport cost for signed measures

E. Mainini

Dipartimento di Matematica "F. Casorati", Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Abstract: In this paper we develop the analysis of [3] about the extension of the optimal transport framework to the space of real measures. The main motivation comes from the study of nonpositive solutions to some evolution PDEs. Although a canonical optimal transport distance does not seem to be available, we may describe the cost for transporting signed measures in various ways and with interesting properties.

Key words and phrases: Monge–Kantorovich problem, optimal transport, Wasserstein distance, signed measures, transport cost.

UDC: 517.958

Received: 22.09.2011

Language: English


 English version:
Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York), 2012, 181:6, 837–855

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