Wasserstein Rigidity over $\mathbb{R}^n$ with smooth norms

Abstract

We study $p-$Wasserstein spaces $ \mathcal{W}_p(\mathbb{R}^n, d_N)$ over $\mathbb{R}^n$ equipped with a norm metric $d_N$. We show that, if the norm is smooth enough, then the Wasserstein space is isometrically rigid whenever $p \neq 2$. We also show that, even when $p=2$, we can recover the isometric rigidity of the Wasserstein space $\mathcal{W}_2(\mathbb{R}^n, d_N)$ when $N$ is an $l_q-$norm and $q>2$.