On the geometry of geodesics in discrete optimal transport

DOI10.1007/s00526-018-1456-1zbMath1504.49064arXiv1805.06040WikidataQ92373207 ScholiaQ92373207MaRDI QIDQ1633619

Matthias Erbar, Jan Maas, Melchior Wirth

Publication date: 20 December 2018

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.06040

zbMATH Keywords

duality; discrete optimal transport; space of probability measures; locality of geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60B05: Probability measures on topological spaces

49Q20: Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting

53C22: Geodesics in global differential geometry

53C21: Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions

58E10: Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable)

49Q22: Optimal transportation

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