Optimal transport and barycenters for dendritic measures

DOI10.2140/PAA.2020.2.581MaRDI QIDQ2020194zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Young-Heon Kim, Brendan Pass, David J. Schneider

Publication date 23 April 2021

Published in Pure and Applied Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08132

zbMATH Keywords

dendritic measureslayerwise-Wasserstein distanceoptimal transportplant root architecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimal transportation (49Q22) Plant biology (92C80)

Abstract: We introduce and study a variant of the Wasserstein distance on the space of probability measures, specially designed to deal with measures whose support has a dendritic, or treelike structure with a particular direction of orientation. Our motivation is the comparison of and interpolation between plants' root systems. We characterize barycenters with respect to this metric, and establish that the interpolations of root-like measures, using this new metric, are also root like, in a certain sense; this property fails for conventional Wasserstein barycenters. We also establish geodesic convexity with respect to this metric for a variety of functionals, some of which we expect to have biological importance.

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