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OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS IN MASS TRANSPORTATION THEORY ...

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• there is a transportation cost for movingfrom the residential areas to the servicespoles;• people desire not to live in areas wherethe density of population is too high;• services need to be concentrated as muchas possible, in order to increase efficiencyand decrease management costs.The transportation cost will be describedthrough a Monge-Kantorovich mass transportationmodel; it is indeed given by a p-Wasserstein distance (p ≥ 1) W p (f + , f − ),being p = 1 the classical Monge case.The total unhappiness of citizens due tohigh density of population will be describedby a penalization functional, of the form{ ∫H(f + h(u) dx) = Ω if f + = u dx+∞ otherwise,37

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