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

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNV177MaRDI QIDQ2800172zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jérôme Bertrand, Benoît Kloeckner

Publication date 15 April 2016

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.1734

zbMATH Keywords

Hadamard spaceisometriesoptimal transportationWasserstein space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Spaces of measures, convergence of measures (28A33) Global geometric and topological methods (à la Gromov); differential geometric analysis on metric spaces (53C23) Probabilistic metric spaces (54E70)

Abstract: Given a metric space X, one defines its Wasserstein space W2(X) as a set of sufficiently decaying probability measures on X endowed with a metric defined from optimal transportation. In this article, we continue the geometric study of W2(X) when X is a simply connected, nonpositively curved metric spaces by considering its isometry group. When X is Euclidean, the second named author proved that this isometry group is larger than the isometry group of X. In contrast, we prove here a rigidity result: when X is negatively curved, any isometry of W2(X) comes from an isometry of X.

Review text

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).

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