Zero-couplings of infinite measures with cyclically monotone support and multivariate regular variation

Alexandre Reber, Anne Sabourin, Johan Segers and Cees de Valk
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Johan Segers: Université catholique de Louvain, LIDAM/ISBA, Belgium

No 2026016, LIDAM Discussion Papers ISBA from Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA)

Abstract: We study cyclically monotone transport plans between measures in M0(R𝑑), the class of Borel measures on R𝑑\{0} that are finite on sets bounded away from the origin but may have infinite total mass. We avoid moment assumptions and allow the transport cost to be infinite. This framework naturally arises for exponent measures in multivariate regular variation and includes other examples such as Lévy measures. We introduce the notion of a zero-coupling and establish existence of cyclically monotone zero-couplings for arbitrary pairs of measures in M0(R𝑑). Under a Hausdorff-dimension condition on the first measure and when at least one of the two measures has infinite mass, we prove uniqueness of the cyclically monotone zero-coupling, yielding an analogue of the Brenier–McCann theorem in this infinite-measure setting. We further derive a representation of such couplings through gradients of closed convex functions and identify conditions under which the zero-coupling is proper in the sense that the second measure is equal to the restriction to the punctured space of the push-forward of the first measure by a cyclically monotone transport map. Finally, we apply these results to regularly varying probability measures. We show that a cyclically monotone coupling between two such distributions admits a tail limit that coincides with the unique proper cyclically monotone zero-coupling between the corresponding exponent measures.

Keywords: Cyclical monotonicity; Fell topology; Multivariate extremes; Optimal transport; Regular variation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44
Date: 2026-05-11
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