Optimal transport: Monge meets Riemann and Fourier Ce´dric Villani

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ENS Lyon & Institut Henri Poincare´, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France

Abstract

This short contribution summarizes a talk given on May 5, 2010, in Cairo, describing some unexpected links between the Monge problem of optimal transport, the Riemann curvature and the heat equation.

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