Global regularity and sparsity for regularised optimal transport

Abstract

We study regularised optimal transport with subquadratic or entropic regularisation. Under $C^{1,α}$-assumptions on the marginals and the domains of their support, we prove global gradient-Lipschitz bounds on the potentials, uniform in the regularisation parameter. Moreover, we show that, up to the boundary, the support of the conditional supports $\text{supp}\,π_\varepsilon(\cdot|x)$ behaves like balls of radius $\varepsilon^\frac 4 {d(p-1)+2}$. Our work was carried out concurrently and independently of [9]. We obtain the results of [9,Theorem 1.2] under weaker assumptions and with a different proof.