Timeline for What is the intuition behind the Kantorovich potential in optimal transport?
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| Jun 24, 2021 at 9:43 | vote | accept | Nate River | ||
| Jun 24, 2021 at 8:20 | answer | added | Dirk | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jun 24, 2021 at 7:37 | comment | added | mlk | Interestingly, there is an economic intuition: What if, instead of paying to transport something from A to B, you want to instead sell it at A and buy the same thing at B? Then the dual problem consists of whoever you are having this deal with optimizing their buy/sell-prices for the most profit, under the condition that you will never take an offer that is cheaper than (partially) transporting stuff. | |
| Jun 24, 2021 at 5:56 | history | asked | Nate River | CC BY-SA 4.0 |