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Self-Intersection of Optimal geodesics

Metric Geometry 2017-05-17 v3 Analysis of PDEs

Abstract

Let (X,d,m)(X,d,m) be a geodesic metric measure space. Consider a geodesic μt\mu_{t} in the L2L^{2}-Wasserstein space. Then as ss goes to tt the support of μs\mu_{s} and the support of μt\mu_{t} have to overlap, provided an upper bound on the densities holds. We give a more precise formulation of this self-intersection property. We consider for each tt the set of times for which a geodesic belongs to the support of μt\mu_{t} and we prove that tt is a point of Lebesgue density 1 for this set, in the integral sense. Our result applies to spaces satisfying CD(K,)\mathsf{CD}(K,\infty). The non branching property is not needed.

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@article{arxiv.1211.6547,
  title  = {Self-Intersection of Optimal geodesics},
  author = {Fabio Cavalletti and Martin Huesmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.6547},
  year   = {2017}
}
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