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Motivated by the local theory of Banach spaces we introduce a notion of finite representability for metric spaces. This allows us to develop a new technique for comparing the generalized roundness of metric spaces. We illustrate this…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-15 Lukiel Levy-Moore , Margaret Nichols , Anthony Weston

We investigate the stability of the Wasserstein distance, a metric structure on the space of probability measures arising from the theory of optimal transport, under metric ultralimits. We first show that if $(X_{i},d_{i})_{i\in\mathbb{N}}$…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Andrew Warren

We formulate closed-form Hessian distances of information entropies in one-dimensional probability density space embedded with the L2-Wasserstein metric.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Wuchen Li

This work investigates several aspects related to quantitative stability in optimal transport, as well as uniqueness of the dual transport problem. Our main contributions are as follows. Chapter 1: Observations regarding the quantitative…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-22 William Ford

Wasserstein barycentres represent average distributions between multiple probability measures for the Wasserstein distance. The numerical computation of Wasserstein barycentres is notoriously challenging. A common approach is to use…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Eloi Tanguy , Julie Delon , Nathaël Gozlan

As a continuation of \cite{NSY:local}, we mainly discuss the global structure of two-dimensional locally compact geodesically complete metric spaces with curvature bounded above. We first obtain the result on the Lipschitz homotopy…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-09-01 Koichi Nagano , Takashi Shioya , Takao Yamaguchi

We introduce a number of tools for finding and studying \emph{hierarchically hyperbolic spaces (HHS)}, a rich class of spaces including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichm\"{u}ller space with either the Teichm\"{u}ller or…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Jason Behrstock , Mark F. Hagen , Alessandro Sisto

In the context of optimal transport methods, the subspace detour approach was recently presented by Muzellec and Cuturi (2019). It consists in building a nearly optimal transport plan in the measures space from an optimal transport plan in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Clément Bonet , Nicolas Courty , François Septier , Lucas Drumetz

We show that for a metric space with an even number of points there is a 1-Lipschitz map to a tree-like space with the same matching number. This result gives the first basic version of an unoriented Kantorovich duality. The study of the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-22 Mircea Petrache , Roger Züst

We show that for every complete metric space $M$ there exists another complete metric space $N$ of the same density character such that the curve-flat quotient of $N$ is isometric to $M$. Moreover, we show that if $M$ is compact and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Jaan Kristjan Kaasik , Andrés Quilis

Since the introduction of the Sliced Wasserstein distance in the literature, its simplicity and efficiency have made it one of the most interesting surrogate for the Wasserstein distance in image processing and machine learning. However,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Eloi Tanguy , Laetitia Chapel , Julie Delon

We explore the geometry of the Bures-Wasserstein space for potentially degenerate Gaussian measures on a separable Hilbert space. In this general setting, the optimal transport map is formally the subgradient of a convex function that is…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Ho Yun , Yoav Zemel

A finite set of unlabelled points in Euclidean space is the simplest representation of many real objects from mineral rocks to sculptures. Since most solid objects are rigid, their natural equivalence is rigid motion or isometry maintaining…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-03-27 Vitaliy Kurlin

Consider a complete Riemannian manifold $(M, g)$ and optimal transport problems on it with cost functions of the form $c(x,y) = h(d_{{g}}(x,y))$. We study the absolute continuity of the corresponding generalized Wasserstein barycenters of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Jianyu Ma

We investigate the geometry of the family $\cal M$ of isometry classes of compact metric spaces, endowed with the Gromov-Hausdorff metric. We show that sufficiently small neighborhoods of generic finite spaces in the subspace of all finite…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-27 Stavros Iliadis , Alexander Ivanov , Alexey Tuzhilin

We study optimal transportation with the quadratic cost function in geodesic metric spaces satisfying suitable non-branching assumptions. We introduce and study the notions of slope along curves and along geodesics and we apply the latter…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2011-11-23 Luigi Ambrosio , Tapio Rajala

Recently many papers on cone metric spaces have been appeared, and main topological properties of such spaces have been obtained. A cone metric space is Hausdorff, and first countable, so the topology of it coincides with a topology induced…

General Topology · Mathematics 2012-07-25 AyŞE SÖnmez

In this article, using ideas of Liero, Mielke and Savar\'{e} in [21], we establish a Kantorovich duality for generalized Wasserstein distances $W_1^{a,b}$ on a generalized Polish metric space, introduced by Picolli and Rossi. As a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Nhan-Phu Chung , Thanh-Son Trinh

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

There are many problems and configurations in Euclidean geometry that were never extended to the framework of (normed or) finite dimensional real Banach spaces, although their original versions are inspiring for this type of generalization,…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-13 Undine Leopold , Horst Martini