Isometric rigidity of the Wasserstein space over the plane with the maximum metric

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Main Authors: Balogh, Zoltán M., Kiss, Gergely, Titkos, Tamás, Virosztek, Dániel
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author Balogh, Zoltán M.
Kiss, Gergely
Titkos, Tamás
Virosztek, Dániel
author_facet Balogh, Zoltán M.
Kiss, Gergely
Titkos, Tamás
Virosztek, Dániel
contents We study $p$-Wasserstein spaces over the branching spaces $\mathbb{R}^2$ and $[-1,1]^2$ equipped with the maximum norm metric. We show that these spaces are isometrically rigid for all $p\geq1,$ meaning that all isometries of these spaces are induced by isometries of the underlying space via the push-forward operation. This is in contrast to the case of the Euclidean metric since with that distance the $2$-Wasserstein space over $\mathbb{R}^2$ is not rigid. Also, we highlight that the $1$-Wasserstein space is not rigid over the closed interval $[-1,1]$, while according to our result, its two-dimensional analog, the closed unit ball $[-1,1]^2$ with the more complicated geodesic structure is rigid.
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spellingShingle Isometric rigidity of the Wasserstein space over the plane with the maximum metric
Balogh, Zoltán M.
Kiss, Gergely
Titkos, Tamás
Virosztek, Dániel
Metric Geometry
Mathematical Physics
Functional Analysis
Primary: 54E40, 46E27. Secondary: 60B05
We study $p$-Wasserstein spaces over the branching spaces $\mathbb{R}^2$ and $[-1,1]^2$ equipped with the maximum norm metric. We show that these spaces are isometrically rigid for all $p\geq1,$ meaning that all isometries of these spaces are induced by isometries of the underlying space via the push-forward operation. This is in contrast to the case of the Euclidean metric since with that distance the $2$-Wasserstein space over $\mathbb{R}^2$ is not rigid. Also, we highlight that the $1$-Wasserstein space is not rigid over the closed interval $[-1,1]$, while according to our result, its two-dimensional analog, the closed unit ball $[-1,1]^2$ with the more complicated geodesic structure is rigid.
title Isometric rigidity of the Wasserstein space over the plane with the maximum metric
topic Metric Geometry
Mathematical Physics
Functional Analysis
Primary: 54E40, 46E27. Secondary: 60B05
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07051