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Wasserstein Rigidity over $\mathbb{R}^n$ with smooth norms

Metric Geometry 2025-11-06 v1

Abstract

We study pp-Wasserstein spaces Wp(Rn,dN) \mathcal{W}_p(\mathbb{R}^n, d_N) over Rn\mathbb{R}^n equipped with a norm metric dNd_N. We show that, if the norm is smooth enough, then the Wasserstein space is isometrically rigid whenever p2p \neq 2. We also show that, even when p=2p=2, we can recover the isometric rigidity of the Wasserstein space W2(Rn,dN)\mathcal{W}_2(\mathbb{R}^n, d_N) when NN is an lql_q-norm and q>2q>2.

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@article{arxiv.2511.03640,
  title  = {Wasserstein Rigidity over $\mathbb{R}^n$ with smooth norms},
  author = {Zoltán M. Balogh and Eric Ströher and Tamás Titkos and Dániel Virosztek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.03640},
  year   = {2025}
}

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29 pages, 4 figures

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