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ESAIM: M2AN
Volume 49, Number 6, November-December 2015
Special Issue - Optimal Transport
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| Page(s) | 1659 - 1670 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/m2an/2015026 | |
| Published online | 05 November 2015 | |
Optimal pits and optimal transportation
1 CEREMADE, Université Paris-Dauphine, Place du Maréchal De
Lattre De Tassigny, 75775 Paris, France.
ekeland@math.ubc.ca
2 CORE, Université Catholique de Louvain, Voie du Roman Pays
34, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, cedex 16, Belgium, France.
3 Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia,
2053 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2, Canada.
Received:
2
April
2015
In open pit mining, one must dig a pit, that is, excavate the upper layers of ground before reaching the ore. The walls of the pit must satisfy some geomechanical constraints, in order not to collapse. The question then arises how to mine the ore optimally, that is, how to find the optimal pit. We set up the problem in a continuous (as opposed to discrete) framework, and we show, under weak assumptions, the existence of an optimum pit. For this, we formulate an optimal transportation problem, where the criterion is lower semi-continuous and is allowed to take the value + ∞. We show that this transportation problem is a strong dual to the optimum pit problem, and also yields optimality (complementarity slackness) conditions.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 37A05 / 49J20 / 49J45 / 90C26 / 90C35 / 90C48
Key words: Optimal transportation / optimal pit mine design / Kantorovich duality
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