The geodesic problem in quasimetric spaces

Details The geodesic problem in quasimetric spaces The geodesic problem in quasimetric spaces

2008-07-22

arxiv.org/abs/0807.3377v2

Journal of Geometric Analysis: Volume 19, Issue2 (2009), Page 452-479

Mathematics

Metric Geometry

21 pages, 5 figures, published version

Scientific paper

In this article, we study the geodesic problem in a generalized metric space, in which the distance function satisfies a relaxed triangle inequality $d(x,y)\leq \sigma (d(x,z)+d(z,y))$ for some constant $\sigma \geq 1$, rather than the usual triangle inequality. Such a space is called a quasimetric space. We show that many well-known results in metric spaces (e.g. Ascoli-Arzel\`{a} theorem) still hold in quasimetric spaces. Moreover, we explore conditions under which a quasimetric will induce an intrinsic metric. As an example, we introduce a family of quasimetrics on the space of atomic probability measures. The associated intrinsic metrics induced by these quasimetrics coincide with the $d_{\alpha}$ metric studied early in the study of branching structures arisen in ramified optimal transportation. An optimal transport path between two atomic probability measures typically has a "tree shaped" branching structure. Here, we show that these optimal transport paths turn out to be geodesics in these intrinsic metric spaces.

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