On isometric embeddings of Wasserstein spaces -- the discrete case (Q2325964)

The paper under review provides a complete characterization of the isometric embeddings (not necessarily surjective) of the Wasserstein space \({\mathcal W}_{p}(\mathcal X)\), where \(\mathcal X\) is a countable discrete metric space and \(0<p<\infty\) is any parameter value. At the end of the paper, the authors leave two very interesting questions open: \begin{itemize} \item[1.] Is there a Polish (or Hadamard) space \(M \neq \mathbb R\) such that \({\mathcal W}_{2}(M)\) admits exotic isometries? \item[2.] Is there a Polish space \(M\) whose Wasserstein space \({\mathcal W}_{2}(M)\) possesses an isometry that does not preserve the set of all Dirac masses? \end{itemize}