OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS IN MASS TRANSPORTATION THEORY ...
OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS IN MASS TRANSPORTATION THEORY ...
OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS IN MASS TRANSPORTATION THEORY ...
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arise in economics, or in medicine, or simplyin traffic planning, each time the connectionbetween two “enemies” is undesired.Of course, the problem is made non trivialby the integral constraint ∫ a(x) dx ≤ m,Ωwhich has a physical meaning: it prescribesthe quantity of material at one’s disposal tosolve the problem.The analogous problem of minimizing thecost functional F (a) over the class A, whichcorresponds to favor the transportation off + into f − , is trivial, sinceinf{}F (a) : a ∈ A= F (α).The existence of a solution for the maximizationproblemmax{}F (a) : a ∈ A42