Along an Optimal Map between Absolutely Continuous Measures the Hessians of the Two Convex Potentials are Inverse Matrices
lemmaAnalysisProbabilitylem:hessians-along-optimal-maps-euclidean-2026aFor the optimal maps between two absolutely continuous measures with finite second moment and their convex potentials, almost every point is one where both potentials are twice differentiable along the map, with positive definite, mutually inverse Hessians.
In the setting of Probability Measures on Euclidean Space and Random Vectors: Standing Notation and Differential Calculus and Convexity on Euclidean Open Sets: Standing Notation, let satisfy , and let belong to the set of probability measures with finite second moment and be absolutely continuous. Let be an optimal map from to and an optimal map from to . Let be open and convex, so that they belong to by Euclidean Space and Lebesgue Measure: Standing Notation §borel, with and ; let be convex on and convex on , with subdifferentials and ; and let satisfy , , , and
Twice differentiability at a point and the Hessians and are as fixed there, is the determinant, and positive definiteness is as defined there.
1. (Inverse Hessians along the map)¶ There is with and such that every satisfies: and ; is twice differentiable at with first-order coefficient ; is twice differentiable at with first-order coefficient ; the matrices and are positive definite; and
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