| Issue |
ESAIM: M2AN
Volume 49, Number 6, November-December 2015
Special Issue - Optimal Transport
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| Page(s) | 1593 - 1605 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/m2an/2015034 | |
| Published online | 05 November 2015 | |
Connections between optimal transport, combinatorial optimization and hydrodynamics
CNRS (CMLS, UMR7640), École Polytechnique, 91128, Palaiseau, France.
yann.brenier@polytechnique.edu
Received:
31
March
2015
We discuss a new connection between combinatorial optimization and optimal transport theory through the analysis of a variational problem coming from mathematical Fluid Mechanics. At a discrete level, this minimization problem corresponds to a quadratic assignment problem, which belongs to the NP class of combinatorial optimization. Our analysis is focused on the study of a suitable gradient flow for which we establish the global existence of dissipative solutions which are unique when smooth.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 49 / 76 / 90
Key words: Optimal transport / fluid mechanics / combinatorial optimization
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