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Wasserstein Metric from Transport Theory and Riemannian Structure of Density Functions

Presenter
June 12, 2014
Keywords:
  • Riemannian structures
MSC:
  • 58B20
Abstract
Day 4: Transport theory leads to a natural metric of the space of probability densities that in turn leads to a natural Riemannian structure. We will describe some of the basic geometric concepts such as Ricci curvature, and see how this methodology allows one to define a notion of curvature on rather general metric spaces. We will describe applications to large data networks.