Regularity of free boundaries in optimal transportation

Abstract

In this paper, we obtain some regularities of the free boundary in optimal transportation with the quadratic cost. Our first result is about the $C^{1,\alpha}$ regularity of the free boundary for optimal partial transport between convex domains for densities $f, g$ bounded from below and above. When $f, g \in C^\alpha$, and $\partial\Omega, \partial\Omega^*\in C^{1,1}$ are far apart, by adopting our recent results on boundary regularity of Monge-Amp\`ere equations \cite{CLW1}, our second result shows that the free boundaries are $C^{2,\alpha}$. As an application, in the last we also obtain these regularities of the free boundary in an optimal transport problem with two separate targets.