Weak regularity of Gauss mass transport

TL;DR

This paper investigates the properties of a specific Gauss mass transport map, establishing a change of variables formula, Sobolev estimates, and connections to PDEs and curvature flows, advancing understanding of mass transport with geometric constraints.

Contribution

It introduces a new form of the change of variables formula and Sobolev estimates for the Gauss mass transport map with convex sublevel sets.

Findings

Proved a change of variables formula for the transport map.

Established Sobolev estimates for the potential function.

Developed a new parabolic maximum principle.

Abstract

Given two probability measures $\mu$ and $\nu$ we consider a mass transportation mapping $T$ satisfying 1) $T$ sends $\mu$ to $\nu$, 2) $T$ has the form $T = \phi \frac{\nabla \phi}{|\nabla \phi|}$, where $\phi$ is a function with convex sublevel sets. We prove a change of variables formula for $T$. We also establish Sobolev estimates for $\phi$, and a new form of the parabolic maximum principle. In addition, we discuss relations to the Monge-Kantorovich problem, curvature flows theory, and parabolic nonlinear PDE's.