A geometric study of Wasserstein spaces: isometric rigidity in negative curvature (Q2800172)

This article is one from a series of papers devoted to the geometric properties of Wasserstein spaces defined for Hadamard spaces.NEWLINENEWLINELet \(X\) be a geodesically complete and proper Hadamard space and \(\mathcal W_2(X)\) -- the space of all Borel probability measures (of finite second moment) on \(X\) equipped with the metric defined from the optimal transportation. In contrast to the main result of [the second author, Ann. Sc. Norm. Super. Pisa, Cl. Sci. (5) 9, No. 2, 297--323 (2010; Zbl 1218.53079)], the authors show that if \(X\) is negatively curved then each isometry of \(\mathcal W_2(X)\) is induced by the isometry of \(X\) (Theorem 1.1).