Abstract
AbstractThe seminal result of Benamou and Brenier provides a characterization of the Wasserstein distance as the path of the minimal action in the space of probability measures, where paths are solutions of the continuity equation and the action is the kinetic energy. Here we consider a fundamental modification of the framework where the paths are solutions of nonlocal (jump) continuity equations and the action is a nonlocal kinetic energy. The resulting nonlocal Wasserstein distances are relevant to fractional diffusions and Wasserstein distances on graphs. We characterize the basic properties of the distance and obtain sharp conditions on the (jump) kernel specifying the nonlocal transport that determine whether the topology metrized is the weak or the strong topology. A key result of the paper are the quantitative comparisons between the nonlocal and local Wasserstein distance.
Funder
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Applied Mathematics,Analysis
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