# Regularity of optimal transport maps (after Ma-Trudinger-Wang and Loeper)

created by figalli on 04 Jun 2009
modified on 28 Apr 2010

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S\'eminaire Bourbaki

Inserted: 4 jun 2009
Last Updated: 28 apr 2010

Year: 2009

Abstract:

The issue of regularity of optimal transport maps in the case cost=squared distance'' on Rn was solved by Caffarelli in the 1990s. However, a major open problem in the theory was the question of regularity for more general cost functions, or for the case cost=squared distance'' on a Riemannian manifold. A breakthrough to this problem has been achieved by Ma-Trudinger-Wang and Loeper, who found a necessary and sufficient condition on the cost function in order to ensure the regularity of the optimal map. In the special case cost=squared distance'' on a Riemannian manifold, this condition corresponds to the non-negativity of a new curvature tensor on the manifold, which implies strong geometric consequences on the geometry of the manifold and on the structure of its cut-locus.