The geodesic problem in quasimetric spaces

DOI10.1007/S12220-008-9065-4zbMATH Open1200.54013arXiv0807.3377OpenAlexW1964150502WikidataQ56512199 ScholiaQ56512199MaRDI QIDQ836239FDOQ836239

Qinglan Xia

Publication date: 31 August 2009

Published in: The Journal of Geometric Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article, we study the geodesic problem in a generalized metric space, in which the distance function satisfies a relaxed triangle inequality $d(x,y)leqsigma(d(x,z)+d(z,y))$ for some constant $sigmageq1$, rather than the usual triangle inequality. Such a space is called a quasimetric space. We show that many well-known results in metric spaces (e.g. Ascoli-Arzel`{a} theorem) still hold in quasimetric spaces. Moreover, we explore conditions under which a quasimetric will induce an intrinsic metric. As an example, we introduce a family of quasimetrics on the space of atomic probability measures. The associated intrinsic metrics induced by these quasimetrics coincide with the $d_{alpha}$ metric studied early in the study of branching structures arisen in ramified optimal transportation. An optimal transport path between two atomic probability measures typically has a "tree shaped" branching structure. Here, we show that these optimal transport paths turn out to be geodesics in these intrinsic metric spaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.3377

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zbMATH Keywords

geodesic distanceoptimal transport pathquasimetricbranching structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Communication networks in operations research (90B18) Metric geometry (51F99) Semimetric spaces (54E25)

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