Complete Duality for Martingale Optimal Transport on the Line

Mathias Beiglb\"ock, Marcel Nutz and Nizar Touzi

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Abstract: We study the optimal transport between two probability measures on the real line, where the transport plans are laws of one-step martingales. A quasi-sure formulation of the dual problem is introduced and shown to yield a complete duality theory for general marginals and measurable reward (cost) functions: absence of a duality gap and existence of dual optimizers. Both properties are shown to fail in the classical formulation. As a consequence of the duality result, we obtain a general principle of cyclical monotonicity describing the geometry of optimal transports.

Date: 2015-07, Revised 2016-06
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