Irrigable Measures for Weighted Irrigation Plans

TL;DR

This paper investigates the conditions under which measures can be irrigated with finite weighted costs in a model of irrigation networks, linking the support's dimension and the asymptotic behavior of branch thickness ODEs.

Contribution

It characterizes the measures that can be irrigated with finite weighted costs based on support dimension and ODE asymptotics.

Findings

Bounded cost depends on support dimension

Support dimension influences irrigability

Asymptotic properties of ODE determine feasibility

Abstract

A model of irrigation network, where lower branches must be thicker in order to support the weight of the higher ones, was recently introduced in BSUN2 [4]. This leads to a countable family of ODEs, describing the thickness of every branch, solved by backward induction. The present paper determines what kind of measures can be irrigated with a finite weighted cost. Indeed, the boundedness of the cost depends on the dimension of the support of the irrigated measure, and also on the asymptotic properties of the ODE which determines the thickness of branches.