On the c-concavity with respect to the quadratic cost on a manifold

Abstract

Pushing a little forward an approach proposed by Villani, we are going to prove that in the Riemannian setting the condition ${\nabla }^{2}f<g$ implies that $f$ is $c$-concave with respect to the quadratic cost as soon as it has a sufficiently small $C^1$-norm. From this, we deduce a sufficient condition for the optimality of transport maps.

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