Optimal transport yields a generalized Wasserstein distance on field space, obtained from a WKB expansion of a Schrödinger equation and extended to dynamical gravity via the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in the ADM formalism.
Stout,Instanton expansions and phase transitions,JHEP05(2022) 168, [2012.11605]
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