A proof of the Caffarelli contraction theorem via entropic regularization

Abstract

We give a new proof of the Caffarelli contraction theorem, which states that the Brenier optimal transport map sending the standard Gaussian measure onto a uniformly log-concave probability measure is Lipschitz. The proof combines a recent variational characterization of Lipschitz transport map by the second author and Juillet with a convexity property of optimizers in the dual formulation of the entropy-regularized optimal transport (or Schr{\"o}dinger) problem.