Quantum optimal transport with convex regularization

In this manuscript, we study the (finite-dimensional) static formulation of quantum optimal transport problems with general convex regularization and its unbalanced relaxation. In both cases, we show a duality result, characterizations of minimizers (for the primal) and maximizers (for the dual). An important tool we define is a non-commutative version of the classical ( (c, psi, epsilon epsilon)-transforms associated with a general convex regularization, which we employ to prove the convergence of the associated Sinkhorn iterations. Finally, we show the convergence of the unbalanced transport problems towards the constrained one, as well as the convergence of transforms, as the marginal penalization parameters go to +infinity. (c) 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).