Dynamic characterization of barycentric optimal transport problems and their martingale relaxation

math.PR arXiv:2511.21287
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Abstract

We extend the Benamou-Brenier formula from classical optimal transport to weak optimal transport and show that the barycentric optimal transport problem studied by Gozlan and Juillet has a dynamic analogue. We also investigate a martingale relaxation of this problem, and relate it to the martingale Benamou-Brenier formula of Backhoff-Veraguas, Beiglböck, Huesmann and Källblad.

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