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In quantum mechanics, the momentum space and position space wave functions are related by the Fourier transform. We investigate how the Fourier transform arises in the context of geometric quantization. We consider a Hilbert space bundle H…

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We provide a general theory for parallel transport on non-collapsed ${\sf RCD}$ spaces obtaining both existence and uniqueness results. Our theory covers the case of geodesics and, more generally, of curves obtained via the flow of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Emanuele Caputo , Nicola Gigli , Enrico Pasqualetto

Probabilistic frames are a generalization of finite frames into the Wasserstein space of probability measures with finite second moment. We introduce new probabilistic definitions of duality, analysis, and synthesis and investigate their…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-03 Clare Wickman , Kasso Okoudjou

In this short note we give an elementary proof of the fact that connections and their geometric parallel-transport counterpart are equivalent notions.

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The (parallel linear) transports in tensor spaces generated by derivations of the tensor algebra along paths are axiomatically described. Certain their properties are investigated. Transports along paths defined by derivations of the tensor…

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In this work, we establish the existence of solutions to stochastic differential equations on the Wasserstein space over a closed Riemannian manifold, under suitable regularity assumptions on the driving vector fields. Interpreting the…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Aymeric Martin

In this paper we develop an intrinsic formalism to study the topology, smooth structure, and Riemannian geometry of the Wasserstein space of a closed Riemannian manifold. Our formalism allows for a new characterisation of the Weak topology…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-17 André Magalhães de Sá Gomes , Christian S. Rodrigues , Luiz A. B. San Martin

Optimal transport provides an inherently geometric and highly structured framework for studying spaces of probability measures, supplying a rich theoretical toolkit for contemporary statistics, machine learning, and generative modelling. In…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-21 Riccardo Passeggeri , Rohan M. Shenoy , Pengcheng Ye

We study the structure of the support of a doubling measure by analyzing its self-similarity properties, which we estimate using a variant of the $L^1$ Wasserstein distance. We show that measure satisfying certain self-similarity conditions…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Jonas Azzam , Guy David , Tatiana Toro

It is broadly known that any parallelepiped tiles space by translating copies of itself along its edges. In earlier work relating to higher-dimensional sandpile groups, the second author discovered a novel construction which fragments the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-14 Joseph Doolittle , Alex McDonough

The aim of this article is to give a rigorous although simple treatment of the geometric notions around parallel transport in quantum mechanics. I start by defining the teleparallelism (or generalized Pancharatnam connection) between…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Raphaël Leone

We describe conditions under which a spacetime connection and a scaled Lorentzian metric define natural symplectic and Poisson structures on the tangent bundle of the Einstein spacetime.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Josef Janyška

We express parallel transport for several common matrix Lie groups with a family of pseudo-Riemannian metrics in terms of matrix exponential and exponential actions. The metrics are constructed from a deformation of a bi-invariant metric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Du Nguyen , Stefan Sommer

What is the optimal way to deform a projective hypersurface into another one? In this paper we will answer this question adopting the point of view of measure theory, introducing the optimal transport problem between complex algebraic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Paolo Antonini , Fabio Cavalletti , Antonio Lerario

The purpose of this paper is to understand the geometric structure of the $L^2$-Wasserstein space $\pp$ over the Euclidean space.For this sake, we focus on its cone structure.One of our main results is that the $L^2$-Wasserstein space over…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-08-10 Asuka Takatsu , Takumi Yokota

We prove existence and uniqueness results for conical geodesic bicombings on subsets of normed vector spaces. Concerning existence, we give a first example of a non-consistent convex geodesic bicombing. Furthermore, we show that under a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-25 Giuliano Basso , Benjamin Miesch

We prove an equivalence between open questions about the embeddability of the space of persistence diagrams and the space of probability distributions (i.e.~Wasserstein space). It is known that for many natural metrics, no coarse embedding…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Neil Pritchard , Thomas Weighill

The Wasserstein distance on multivariate non-degenerate Gaussian densities is a Riemannian distance. After reviewing the properties of the distance and the metric geodesic, we present an explicit form of the Riemannian metrics on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Luigi Malagò , Luigi Montrucchio , Giovanni Pistone

Wasserstein distance induces a natural Riemannian structure for the probabilities on the Euclidean space. This insight of classical transport theory is fundamental for tremendous applications in various fields of pure and applied…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-08-14 Daniel Bartl , Mathias Beiglböck , Gudmund Pammer

The geometric tangent cone to a probability measure $\mu$ is a set of measure-valued applications that are almost geodesics. This is a nonlocal condition, typically lost when conditioning the measure on a given set. We show that if one…

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