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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
• Regularity of optimal transport maps and the Monge-Ampére equation; Figalli-Glaudo (108-110); Santambrogio (54-57),[1] (make sure to link to the existing wiki article on Optimal Transport and the Monge Ampère equation)
• Multi-marginal optimal transport (perhaps discussing applications in economics or density functional theory); Figalli-Glaudo(105-106)
• Optimal transport with Coulomb cost and density functional theory; Figalli-Glaudo (106)
• Entropic optimal transport and the Schrödinger bridge problem [2][3]

The 2-Wasserstein Metric

• Displacement convexity; Santambrogio (249-251,271-276); Villani (150-154)
• Gradient flows in metric spaces; Figalli-Glaudo (107-108); Santambrogio, 'OT for Applied Mathematicians' (285-290); Santambrogio, 'Euclidean, Metric, and Wasserstein GFs' (90-107; don't need to cover all topics, just what interests you)
• 2-Wasserstein gradient flows and Ricci curvature; Figalli-Glaudo (112-114)

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)