Regularity of optimal maps on the sphere: the quadratic cost and the reflector antenna (Q717436)

Building on the results of \textit{X.-N. Ma, N.S. Trudinger} and \textit{X.-J. Wang} [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 177, No. 2, 151--183 (2005; Zbl 1072.49035)], and of himself [Acta Math., to appear], the author investigates two problems of optimal transportation on the sphere: the first corresponds to the cost function \(d ^{2}(x, y)\), where \(d(\cdot , \cdot )\) is the Riemannian distance of the round sphere; the second corresponds to the cost function \(- \log |x - y|\), known as the reflector antenna problem. He proves that in both cases, the cost-sectional curvature is uniformly positive, and establishes the geometrical properties so that the results of the author [loc. cit.] and Ma, Trudinger and Wang [loc. cit.] can apply: global smooth solutions exist for arbitrary smooth positive data and optimal maps are Hölder continuous under weak assumptions on the data.