Disintegrated optimal transport for metric fiber bundles
Abstract
We define a new two-parameter family of metrics on subsets of Borel probability measures on general metric fiber bundles, called the . This family contains the classical Monge-Kantorovich metrics, linearized optimal transport distance, and fibered Wasserstein distances, and certain cases admit isometric embeddings of the sliced and max-sliced Wasserstein spaces. We prove these metrics are complete, separable (except an endpoint case), and geodesic, with a dual representation. Our results cannot be obtained by applying the theory of maps valued in spaces of probability measures, in fact the map case can be recovered from our results by taking the underlying bundle as a trivial product bundle, and the geodesicness and duality results are new even in the fibered Wasserstein case.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2407.01879,
title = {Disintegrated optimal transport for metric fiber bundles},
author = {Jun Kitagawa and Asuka Takatsu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.01879},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
33 pages. Comments welcome! Part of previous version dealing with barycenter problems has been split off, arXiv:2601.14928