A Sudakov Decomposition in Riemannian Manifolds with Positive Curvature

Abstract

In this paper, we study Monge's problem on Riemannian manifolds $(M, g)$ with positive sectional curvature. Assuming that the source and target measures are absolutely continuous with respect to the Riemannian volume measure, we generalize a variational method from the Euclidean setting to establish the existence of a transport density and an explicit disintegration of measures along optimal rays. These results extend the approach of Bianchini-Caravenna to the Riemannian context.