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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)

Variants of Optimal Transport Problems

• Wasserstein barycenters and applications in image processing; Santambrogio (215-218); Peyré-Cuturi (138-148)
• Multi-marginal optimal transport and density functional theory (perhaps discussing applications in economics or density functional theory); Figalli-Glaudo(105-106); Santambriogio (48-51)
• Entropic optimal transport and the Schrödinger bridge problem [2][3]
• Martingale optimal transport and mathematical finance; Santambrogio (51-53)

The 2-Wasserstein Metric

• Displacement convexity; Santambrogio (249-251,271-276); Villani (150-154) (make sure to cite existing wiki article on Geodesics and generalized geodesics)
• 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)
• The 2-Wasserstein metric as a loss function for inverse problems

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)

Applications:

• Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks [4], [5]
• Optimal transport methods in economics; see introduction of book by Galichon (I have a copy you can borrow) and [6]
• 2 layer neural networks as Wasserstein gradient flows [7]
• Quantization and Lloyd's algorithm