An optimal transport plan of finite cost for a finite continuous cost function is c-cyclically monotone. A strict violation at finitely many support points persists in small product neighborhoods; subtracting small normalized pieces and inserting cyclically re-paired product measures preserves both marginals and strictly improves the finite cost. The finite-value hypothesis matters: if every competitor has infinite cost, a nonmonotone plan may still be an extended-value minimizer.
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