Busemann functions on the Wasserstein space

DOI10.1007/S00526-021-01937-3MaRDI QIDQ829419zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Guomin Zhu, Xiaojun Cui, Wen Long Li

Publication date 6 May 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.05544

zbMATH Keywords

Wasserstein spaceBusemann functionsraysco-rays

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convergence of probability measures (60B10) Applications of stochastic analysis (to PDEs, etc.) (60H30) Variational problems in applications to the theory of geodesics (problems in one independent variable) (58E10)

Abstract: We study rays and co-rays in the Wasserstein space $P_p(mathcalX)$ ($p>1$) whose ambient space $mathcalX$ is a complete, separable, non-compact, locally compact length space. We show that rays in the Wasserstein space can be represented as probability measures concentrated on the set of rays in the ambient space. We show the existence of co-rays for any prescribed initial probability measure. We introduce Busemann functions on the Wasserstein space and show that co-rays are negative gradient lines in some sense.

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• Wasserstein GAN

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