Smoothing operators in multi-marginal optimal transport (Q2189723)

The author starts from a multi-marginal optimal transport problem on the Euclidean space, in which he considers \(N\) Borel probability measures \((\rho_1,\dots,\rho_N)\), the cost, the goal minimization functions and the constraints (i.e., a generalization of the Kantorovich formulation of the optimal transport for \(n=2\)). He investigates the properties of the product space of measurements, when the measures have some regularity (in particular, in the case when the marginals have a Sobolev-type regularity). This work contains a systematic presentation of the results for general \(p > 1\), and the author indicates a way to obtain energy estimates and the strong \(W_{1,p}\) continuity property. The presented tool is useful in order to study the properties of the mapping between a transport plan and its marginals.