activity
20242026
collaborators

5 papers

math.AP2026

The monopolist's free boundary problem in the plane

Robert J. McCann, Cale Rankin, Kelvin Shuangjian Zhang

We study the Monopolist's problem with a focus on the free boundary separating bunched from unbunched consumers, especially in the plane, and give a full description of its solutio…

math.AP2026

Convexity inequalities for eigenvalues and log-concavity of eigenfunctions

Paul Bryan, Julie Clutterbuck, Cale Rankin

We give simple new proofs of two well-known results for the Schrödinger operator: first, the Brunn--Minkowski inequality for Dirichlet eigenvalues and, second, the log-concavity o…

math.AP2026

On the Hausdorff dimension and singularities of the monopolist's free boundary curve

Robert J. McCann, Lucas D. O'Brien, Cale Rankin

The simplest genuinely multidimensional monopolist's problem involves minimizing a linearly perturbed Dirichlet energy among nonnegative convex functions on an open domain $X \…

math.PR2025

Bregman-Wasserstein divergence: geometry and applications

Amanjit Singh Kainth, Cale Rankin, Ting-Kam Leonard Wong

The Bregman-Wasserstein divergence is the optimal transport cost when the underlying cost function is given by a Bregman divergence, and arises naturally in fields such as statisti…

math.DG2024

A geometric approach to apriori estimates for optimal transport maps

Simon Brendle, Flavien Léger, Robert J. McCann +1

A key inequality which underpins the regularity theory of optimal transport for costs satisfying the Ma--Trudinger--Wang condition is the Pogorelov second derivative bound. This tr…