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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Main Authors: Francesco D'Andrea, Pierre Martinetti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Science of Ukraine 2010-07-01
Series:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2010.057