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Disintegrated optimal transport for metric fiber bundles

Metric Geometry 2026-02-17 v3 Optimization and Control

Abstract

We define a new two-parameter family of metrics on subsets of Borel probability measures on general metric fiber bundles, called the disintegrated Monge–Kantorovich metrics \textit{disintegrated Monge--Kantorovich metrics}. 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 LqL^q maps valued in spaces of probability measures, in fact the LqL^q 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