Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory

B. Han - Z. Zhu

Stability of optimal transport on metric measure spaces

created by han1 on 05 Jul 2026

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Inserted: 5 jul 2026
Last Updated: 5 jul 2026

Year: 2026

Abstract:

We prove a quantitative stability of Kantorovich potentials on non-smooth metric measure spaces with synthetic lower Ricci curvature bound, thereby confirming a recent conjecture of Kitagawa, Letrouit and M\'erigot. Our proof, which employs the heat kernel-regularized $c$-transform, does not rely on linear structure or sectional curvature bounds, is new even in the smooth setting. As a corollary, we get a quantitative stability of optimal transport maps on Alexandrov spaces with lower curvature bound.


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