Limits of density-constrained optimal transport (Q2113323)

In this paper, the authors study two limit cases of constrained optimal transport in \(\mathbb{R}^d\). The problem is understood as a minimisation of a functional on the space of constant-speed curves, where the length of the curve intersected with any given open set is less or equal to the value of an integral of a given function (which may take infinite values) on this open set. The first of the two problems is a model of an infinitesimal membrane, which is derived as a \(\Gamma\)-limit as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0\) of optimal transport problems with the constraint of the form \(h^\varepsilon(x) = \alpha \varepsilon\) if \(x_d \in (0,\varepsilon)\) and \(+\infty\) otherwise. The second of the two problems concerns homogenisation of a periodic obstacle, whose size goes down to zero: to be exact, the authors study the \(\Gamma\)-limit as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0\) of the optimal transport problem with an obstacle of the form \(h^\varepsilon(x) = h(x/\varepsilon)\), where \(h\) is \(\mathbb{Z}^d\)-periodic. In both cases, the authors describe the \(\Gamma\)-limit in an explicit way and provide some examples.