Duality and quotient spaces of generalized Wasserstein spaces

Abstract

In this article, using ideas of Liero, Mielke and Savar\'{e} in [21], we establish a Kantorovich duality for generalized Wasserstein distances $W_1^{a,b}$ on a generalized Polish metric space, introduced by Picolli and Rossi. As a consequence, we give another proof that $W_1^{a,b}$ coincide with flat metrics which is a main result of [25], and therefore we get a result of independent interest that $\left(\mathcal{M}(X), W^{a,b}_1\right)$ is a geodesic space for every Polish metric space $X$. We also prove that $(\mathcal{M}^G(X),W_p^{a,b})$ is isometric isomorphism to $(\mathcal{M}(X/G),W_p^{a,b})$ for isometric actions of a compact group $G$ on a Polish metric space $X$; and several results of Gromov-Hausdorrf convergence and equivariant Gromov-Hausdorff convergence of generalized Wasserstein spaces. The latter results were proved for standard Wasserstein spaces in [22],[14] and [8] respectively.