Absolutely continuous and BV-curves in 1-Wasserstein spaces

DOI10.1007/S00526-023-02616-1MaRDI QIDQ6140835zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ehsan Abedi, Zhenhao Li, Timo Schultz

Publication date 2 January 2024

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.04268

zbMATH Keywords

superposition principleabsolutely continuous curves1-Wasserstein spaceBV-curvescharacterization of geodesics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimal transportation (49Q22) Probability measures on topological spaces (60B05) Functions of bounded variation, generalizations (26A45) Existence of optimal solutions to problems involving randomness (49J55) Existence theories for problems in abstract spaces (49J27)

Abstract: We extend the result of [Lisini, S. Calc. Var. 28, 85-120 (2007)] on the superposition principle for absolutely continuous curves in $p$-Wasserstein spaces to the special case of $p=1$. In contrast to the case of $p>1$, it is not always possible to have lifts on absolutely continuous curves. Therefore, one needs to relax the notion of a lift by considering curves of bounded variation, or shortly BV-curves, and replace the metric speed by the total variation measure. We prove that any BV-curve in a 1-Wasserstein space can be represented by a probability measure on the space of BV-curves which encodes the total variation measure of the Wasserstein curve. In particular, when the curve is absolutely continuous, the result gives a lift concentrated on BV-curves which also characterizes the metric speed. The main theorem is then applied for the characterization of geodesics and the study of the continuity equation in a discrete setting.

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