A PDE Derivation of the Schrödinger--Bass Bridge
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| author | Alouadi, Alexandre Henry-Labordère, Pierre Loeper, Grégoire Mazhar, Othmane Pham, Huyên Touzi, Nizar |
| author_facet | Alouadi, Alexandre Henry-Labordère, Pierre Loeper, Grégoire Mazhar, Othmane Pham, Huyên Touzi, Nizar |
| contents | This short paper announces the main results of \cite{SBB2026}, where the Schrödinger--Bass Bridge (SBB) problem is introduced and studied in full generality. Here we provide a direct PDE derivation of the SBB system in dimension one, showing how the optimal coupling problem that interpolates between the classical Schrödinger bridge and the Bass martingale transport can be solved explicitly via Legendre transforms and the heat equation. A key insight is that the optimal SBB process is a Stretched Schrödinger Bridge: the composition of a monotone transport map with a Schrödinger bridge. This extends the stretched Brownian motion representation of Bass martingales to the semimartingale setting and provides a unified framework that recovers both the Sinkhorn algorithm (in the limit $β\to \infty$) and the Bass construction (as $β\to 0$). We refer to \cite{SBB2026} for complete proofs, the multidimensional setting, strong duality, dual attainment, and further developments. |
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| spellingShingle | A PDE Derivation of the Schrödinger--Bass Bridge Alouadi, Alexandre Henry-Labordère, Pierre Loeper, Grégoire Mazhar, Othmane Pham, Huyên Touzi, Nizar Probability Optimization and Control This short paper announces the main results of \cite{SBB2026}, where the Schrödinger--Bass Bridge (SBB) problem is introduced and studied in full generality. Here we provide a direct PDE derivation of the SBB system in dimension one, showing how the optimal coupling problem that interpolates between the classical Schrödinger bridge and the Bass martingale transport can be solved explicitly via Legendre transforms and the heat equation. A key insight is that the optimal SBB process is a Stretched Schrödinger Bridge: the composition of a monotone transport map with a Schrödinger bridge. This extends the stretched Brownian motion representation of Bass martingales to the semimartingale setting and provides a unified framework that recovers both the Sinkhorn algorithm (in the limit $β\to \infty$) and the Bass construction (as $β\to 0$). We refer to \cite{SBB2026} for complete proofs, the multidimensional setting, strong duality, dual attainment, and further developments. |
| title | A PDE Derivation of the Schrödinger--Bass Bridge |
| topic | Probability Optimization and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.17863 |