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We study the possibility of defining a distance on the whole space of measures, with the property that the distance between two measures having the same mass is the Wasserstein distance, up to a scaling factor. We prove that, under very…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-10 Luca Lombardini , Francesco Rossi

Modeling observations as random distributions embedded within Wasserstein spaces is becoming increasingly popular across scientific fields, as it captures the variability and geometric structure of the data more effectively. However, the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-08 François Bachoc , Alberto González-Sanz , Jean-Michel Loubes , Yisha Yao

We prove that for a metric space $X$ and a finite group $G$ acting on $X$ by isometries, if $X$ coarsely embeds into a Hilbert space, then so does the quotient $X/G$. A crucial step towards our main result is to show that for any integer $k…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Thomas Weighill

Here we propose a simple modification of the parameterisation presented in Costa (2005) [Viscosity of high crystal content melts: dependence on solid fraction, Geophys. Res. Lett., 32, 2005] which improves all the main positive features of…

Geophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Costa

A Finsler metric is geodesically reversible if geodesics remain geodesics after a change of orientation. Asymmetric norms on vector spaces and Funk metrics in the interior of convex bodies are examples of geodesically reversible metrics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-10-01 Juan-Carlos Alvarez Paiva

We suggest that the tools of contraction analysis for deterministic systems can be applied towards studying the convergence behavior of stochastic dynamical systems in the Wasserstein metric. In particular, we consider the case of Ito…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-01 Jake Bouvrie , Jean-Jacques Slotine

In this article, we represent the Wasserstein metric of order $p$, where $p\in [1,\infty)$, in terms of the comonotonicity copula, for the case of probability measures on $\R^d$, by revisiting existing results. In 1973, Vallender…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Mariem Abdellatif , Peter Kuchling , Barbara Rüdiger , Irene Ventura

In this paper, we study the stability property of Hamiltonian systems on the Wasserstein space. Let $H$ be a given Hamiltonian satisfying certain properties. We regularize $H$ using the Moreau-Yosida approximation and denote it by $H_\tau.$…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-06-14 Hwa Kil Kim

We introduce a pressure robust Finite Element Method for the linearized Magnetohydrodynamics equations in three space dimensions, which is provably quasi-robust also in the presence of high fluid and magnetic Reynolds numbers. The proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-03 L. Beirão da Veiga , F. Dassi , G. Vacca

We obtain an estimate for the expected subspace robust Wasserstein distance between any probability measure on the unit ball of a separable Hilbert space, and its empirical distribution from $n$ i.i.d. samples.

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Dakshesh Vasan

Let $M$ be a connected compact Riemannian manifold possibly with a boundary, let $V\in C^2(M)$ such that $\mu(\d x):=\e^{V(x)}\d x$ is a probability measure, where $\d x$ is the volume measure, and let $L=\Delta+\nabla V$. The exact…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Feng-Yu Wang , Bingyao Wu

The Wasserstein barycenter problem seeks a probability measure that minimizes the weighted average of the Wasserstein distances to a given collection of probability measures. We study the discrete setting, where each measure has finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Jiaqi Wang , Weijun Xie

Almost-isometries are quasi-isometries with multiplicative constant one. Lifting a pair of metrics on a compact space gives quasi-isometric metrics on the universal cover. Under some additional hypotheses on the metrics, we show that there…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-19 Aditi Kar , Jean-Francois Lafont , Benjamin Schmidt

Rigid, hard and soft problems and results in arithmetic geometry are presented. "Soft" and "hard" in our paper are limited to the framework of solutions of quadratic forms over rings of integers of local and global fields, the…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Nikolaj Glazunov

Comparing probability measures modulo unknown rigid transformations is a central challenge in geometric data analysis. Classical optimal transport (OT) distances, including Wasserstein and sliced Wasserstein, are sensitive to rotations and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zakk Heile , Peilin He , Jayson Tran , Alice Wang , Shrikant Chand

We consider the Wasserstein metric on the Gaussian mixture models (GMMs), which is defined as the pullback of the full Wasserstein metric on the space of smooth probability distributions with finite second moment. It derives a class of…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Wuchen Li , Jiaxi Zhao

The sliced Wasserstein metric compares probability measures on $\mathbb{R}^d$ by taking averages of the Wasserstein distances between projections of the measures to lines. The distance has found a range of applications in statistics and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Sangmin Park , Dejan Slepčev

Following the breakthrough work of Guillen and Silvestre \cite{GS24}, that shows that the Fisher information is monotonically decreasing for solutions to the homogeneous Landau equation, we study, for the same equation, the monotonicity…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-13 F. -U. Caja-Lopez , M. G. Delgadino , M. -P. Gualdani , M. Taskovic

We study optimization problems whereby the optimization variable is a probability measure. Since the probability space is not a vector space, many classical and powerful methods for optimization (e.g., gradients) are of little help. Thus,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-18 Nicolas Lanzetti , Antonio Terpin , Florian Dörfler

Let $g$ be a Riemannian metric for $\mathbf{R}^d$ ($d\geq 3$) which differs from the Euclidean metric only in a smooth and strictly convex bounded domain $M$. The lens rigidity problem is concerned with recovering the metric $g$ inside $M$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-02-28 Gang Bao , Hai Zhang