%0 Journal Article %J Communications in Mathematical Physics %D 2013 %T The Monge Problem for Distance Cost in Geodesic Spaces %A Stefano Bianchini %A Fabio Cavalletti %X

We address the Monge problem in metric spaces with a geodesic distance: (X, d) is a Polish space and dLis a geodesic Borel distance which makes (X, dL) a non branching geodesic space. We show that under the assumption that geodesics are d-continuous and locally compact, we can reduce the transport problem to 1-dimensional transport problems along geodesics. We introduce two assumptions on the transport problem π which imply that the conditional probabilities of the first marginal on each geodesic are continuous or absolutely continuous w.r.t. the 1-dimensional Hausdorff distance induced by dL. It is known that this regularity is sufficient for the construction of a transport map. We study also the dynamics of transport along the geodesic, the stability of our conditions and show that in this setting dL-cyclical monotonicity is not sufficient for optimality.

%B Communications in Mathematical Physics %V 318 %P 615–673 %8 Mar %G eng %U https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-013-1663-8 %R 10.1007/s00220-013-1663-8