Stability of optimal transport on metric measure spaces

Abstract

We prove a quantitative stability of Kantorovich potentials on metric measure spaces with 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. As a corollary, we get a quantitative stability of optimal transport maps on Alexandrov spaces with lower curvature bound.