Optimal Transport in Lorentzian geometry

Speaker:

Stefan Suhr

Affiliation:

Universität Hamburg

Date:

Tue, 26/09/2017 - 17:00 - 17:30

Location:

MPIM Lecture Hall [2]

Parent event:

Metric Measure Spaces and Ricci Curvature [3]

With the development of optimal transportation in Riemannian geometry and its connections to mathematical physics it is natural to look for an analogue in Lorentzian geometry. I will give a motivation for the Lorentzian cost function and shortly discuss first results in Lorentzian optimal transport.