A View on Optimal Transport from Noncommutative Geometry
We discuss the relation between the Wasserstein distance of order 1 between probability distributions on a metric space, arising in the study of Monge-Kantorovich transport problem, and the spectral distance of noncommutative geometry. Starting from a remark of Rieffel on compact manifolds, we first...
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| Date: | 2010 |
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| Language: | English |
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Інститут математики НАН України
2010
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| Series: | Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications |
| Online Access: | http://dspace.nbuv.gov.ua/handle/123456789/146358 |
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| Journal Title: | Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine |
| Cite this: | A View on Optimal Transport from Noncommutative Geometry / F. D'Andrea, P. Martinetti // Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications. — 2010. — Т. 6. — Бібліогр.: 44 назв. — англ. |
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Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine| Summary: | We discuss the relation between the Wasserstein distance of order 1 between probability distributions on a metric space, arising in the study of Monge-Kantorovich transport problem, and the spectral distance of noncommutative geometry. Starting from a remark of Rieffel on compact manifolds, we first show that on any - i.e. non-necessary compact - complete Riemannian spin manifolds, the two distances coincide. Then, on convex manifolds in the sense of Nash embedding, we provide some natural upper and lower bounds to the distance between any two probability distributions. Specializing to the Euclidean space Rⁿ, we explicitly compute the distance for a particular class of distributions generalizing Gaussian wave packet. Finally we explore the analogy between the spectral and the Wasserstein distances in the noncommutative case, focusing on the standard model and the Moyal plane. In particular we point out that in the two-sheet space of the standard model, an optimal-transport interpretation of the metric requires a cost function that does not vanish on the diagonal. The latest is similar to the cost function occurring in the relativistic heat equation. |
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