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Main Authors: Acciaio, Beatrice, Bartl, Daniel, Grass, Anne, Hou, Songyan, Pammer, Gudmund
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00623
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  • The adapted Bures--Wasserstein space consists of Gaussian processes endowed with the adapted Wasserstein distance. It can be viewed as the analogue of the classical Bures--Wasserstein space in optimal transport for the setting of stochastic processes, where the standard Wasserstein distance is inadequate and has to be replaced by its adapted counterpart. We develop a comprehensive geometric theory for the adapted Bures--Wasserstein space, thereby also providing the first results on the fine geometric structure of adapted optimal transport. In particular, we show that the adapted Bures--Wasserstein space is an Alexandrov space with non-negative curvature and provide explicit descriptions of tangent cones and exponential maps. Moreover, we show that Gaussian processes satisfying a natural non-degeneracy condition form a geodesically convex subspace. This subspace is characterized precisely by the property that its tangent cones are linear and hence coincide with the tangent space.