Date/heure
11 décembre 2025
10:45 - 11:45
Lieu
Salle de conférences Nancy
Oratrice ou orateur
Armand Ley
Catégorie d'évènement Séminaire Probabilités et Statistique
Résumé
We study the optimal transport problem on the real line with the cost given by the distance, a setting in which solutions (called optimal transport plans) are typically non-unique. The first part of the talk presents a decomposition theorem: every optimal transport plan admits a unique decomposition into components, each acting on a specific region where the mass moves forward, moves backward, or remains stationary. Building on this structure, the second part investigates the behaviour of an entropically regularized version of the problem as the regularization parameter tends to zero. A natural candidate for the limit is constructed from our decomposition together with a Strassen-type theorem for a strengthened stochastic order. When the source and target distributions are sufficiently singular, the entropic minimizers converge to this plan. In general, all limit points satisfy a structural property known as weak multiplicativity.