Regularity of singular set in optimal transportation

Abstract

In this work, we establish a regularity theory for the optimal transport problem when the target is composed of two disjoint convex domains, denoted $\Omega^*_i$ for $i=1, 2$. This is a fundamental model in which singularities arise. Even though the singular set does not exhibit any form of convexity a priori, we are able to prove its higher order regularity by developing novel methods, which also have many other interesting applications (see Remark 1.1). Notably, our results are achieved without requiring any convexity of the source domain $\Omega$. This aligns with Caffarelli's celebrated regularity theory \cite{C92}