An Invitation to Optimal Transport, Wasserstein Distances, and Gradient Flows

Download or read book An Invitation to Optimal Transport, Wasserstein Distances, and Gradient Flows written by Alessio Figalli and published by European Mathematical Society. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a self-contained introduction to optimal transport, and it is intended as a starting point for any researcher who wants to enter into this beautiful subject. The presentation focuses on the essential topics of the theory: Kantorovich duality, existence and uniqueness of optimal transport maps, Wasserstein distances, the JKO scheme, Otto's calculus, and Wasserstein gradient flows. At the end, a presentation of some selected applications of optimal transport is given. Suitable for a course at the graduate level, the book also includes an appendix with a series of exercises along with their solutions. The second edition contains a number of additions, such as a new section on the Brunn–Minkowski inequality, new exercises, and various corrections throughout the text.