Generalized barycenters and variance maximization on metric spaces

DOI10.1007/S11784-022-01015-XMaRDI QIDQ2103350zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Brendan Pass

Publication date 13 December 2022

Published in Journal of Fixed Point Theory and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.02984

zbMATH Keywords

bi-linear minimax theoryprobability measuresvariance maximization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimal transportation (49Q22) Methods of global Riemannian geometry, including PDE methods; curvature restrictions (53C21) Integration on manifolds; measures on manifolds (58C35) Probability measures on topological spaces (60B05) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05)

Abstract: We show that the variance of a probability measure $mu$ on a compact subset $X$ of a complete metric space $M$ is bounded by the square of the circumradius $R$ of the canonical embedding of $X$ into the space $P(M)$ of probability measures on $M$, equipped with the Wasserstein metric. When barycenters of measures on $X$ are unique (such as on CAT($0$) spaces), our approach shows that $R$ in fact coincides with the circumradius of $X$ and so this result extends a recent result of Lim-McCann from Euclidean space. Our approach involves bi-linear minimax theory on $P(X)imesP(M)$ and extends easily to the case when the variance is replaced by very general moments. As an application, we provide a simple proof of Jung's theorem on CAT($k$) spaces, a result originally due to Dekster and Lang-Schroeder.

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