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The Optimal Transport Problem

• Optimal Transport in one dimension; Villani (73-78); Santambrogio (59-67)
• 1-Wasserstein metric, duality, and measures with unequal mass; Piccoli, Rossi, and Tournus A Wasserstein norm for signed measures, with application to nonlocal transport equation with source term

The 2-Wasserstein Metric

• Displacement convexity; Santambrogio (249-251,271-276); Villani (150-154)
• Asymptotic equivalence of $W_{2}$ and ${\dot {H}}^{-1}$; Santambrogio (209-211); Villani (233-235)
• This article has been partially written, but further contributions are welcome: Gradient flows in metric spaces

Numerical Methods for Optimal Transport

• Computing OT via Benamou-Brenier; Santambrogio (220-225); Peyré, Cuturi (102-108)
• Wasserstein Barycenters; Santambrogio (215-218); Peyré, Cuturi (138-144)

Mathematical Foundations: Optimization

• Fenchel-Rockafellar and Linear Programming; Brezis (15-17); Rockafellar, Variational Analysis (505-507)