The Ma-Trudinger-Wang condition is a curvature condition on a transport cost used to control regularity of optimal transport maps.
For the cost on a Riemannian
manifold, its weak form requires
for
in the open injectivity domain
and tangent vectors
with
. The cost is smooth at these pairs. For Euclidean
squared distance this fourth derivative is zero. The
orthogonality restriction is part of the weak condition.