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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 348 2 c Solution by
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For every admissible transport map , the pushforward measure condition gives for -almost every . Hence , andApply the Jensen inequality to the convex function and the probability measure :Translation by one sends the source uniform distribution to the target uniform distribution, so is admissible. Its displacement is constantly one, givingNo monotonicity assumption on is needed, because all displacements have the same sign. The same argument with a transport plan also gives the identical minimum for the Kantorovich optimal transport problem.
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