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The Wasserstein--Ebin Metric: A Geometric Lift of Unbalanced Optimal Transport to the space of Riemannian metrics

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Pith's one-line read The volume map defines a Riemannian submersion from the Wasserstein-Ebin metric on Riemannian metrics to the Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao metric on densities.

desk verdict The paper defines a Wasserstein-Ebin metric on Riemannian metrics via dynamic unbalanced transport and proves the volume map is a Riemannian submersion to the Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao metric. read the letter →

arxiv 2605.27086 v1 pith:UTEOHWLL submitted 2026-05-26 math.DG math.AP

Martin Bauer , Peter W. Michor , François-Xavier Vialard This is my paper · ORCID
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The paper extends unbalanced optimal transport from positive densities to the full space of Riemannian metrics through both dynamic and static formulations. In the dynamic version, metric evolution combines a transport vector field penalized by the L2 metric with a source term penalized by the Ebin metric, producing the Wasserstein-Ebin metric. The central result establishes that sending each metric to its volume density yields a Riemannian submersion onto the space equipped with the Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao metric. The work also constructs a submersion from the automorphism group of the tangent bundle onto the space of metrics, generalizing Otto's classical picture, and introduces two Kullback-Leibler-type divergences for a static formulation whose connection to the dynamic one is left open.

What carries the argument

The Wasserstein-Ebin metric, obtained from the dynamic formulation that penalizes transport by the L2 metric and source by the Ebin metric on the evolution of Riemannian metrics.

What would settle it

An explicit computation of the differential of the volume map that checks whether it satisfies the Riemannian submersion condition with respect to the Wasserstein-Ebin inner product, or a pair of nearby metrics whose Wasserstein-Ebin distance fails to equal the Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao distance of their volumes.

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Core claim

The authors construct the Wasserstein-Ebin metric on the manifold of Riemannian metrics via a dynamic variational problem in which the evolution is driven by transport and source, with the L2 metric penalizing the vector field and the Ebin metric penalizing the source. They prove that the volume map is a Riemannian submersion from this metric to the Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao metric on smooth densities and construct a Riemannian submersion from the automorphism group of the tangent bundle onto the space of Riemannian metrics.

Load-bearing premise

The chosen L2 and Ebin penalizations produce a well-defined Riemannian metric on the manifold of Riemannian metrics when formally extending unbalanced optimal transport.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Horizontal geodesics in the Wasserstein-Ebin metric project to geodesics in the Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao space of densities.
  • The automorphism group of the tangent bundle supplies a geometric description of the Wasserstein-Ebin metric that generalizes Otto's construction for the Wasserstein metric.
  • Two new Kullback-Leibler-type divergences on the space of Riemannian metrics furnish a static formulation of unbalanced metric transport.
  • Distances and optimal paths between metrics can be studied by lifting problems already solved on their volume densities.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The submersions suggest that horizontal lifts could be used to solve metric-valued optimization problems by reducing them to density-valued ones.
  • The static divergences may connect the construction to matrix information geometry and allow direct comparison of metrics without solving a dynamic problem.
  • If the open link between static and dynamic formulations is closed, the resulting theory would parallel the equivalence of static and dynamic unbalanced optimal transport on densities.
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Summary. The manuscript introduces dynamic and static formulations that extend unbalanced optimal transport from positive densities to the space of Riemannian metrics. It defines the Wasserstein-Ebin metric via a dynamic variational problem in which metric evolution is driven by a transport vector field (penalized by the L² metric) together with a source term (penalized by the Ebin metric). The central result asserts that the volume map is a Riemannian submersion from this new metric to the Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao metric on densities. An additional submersion is constructed from the automorphism group of the tangent bundle onto the space of metrics, generalizing Otto's geometric picture. Two Kullback-Leibler-type divergences on metrics are proposed for a static formulation, though the link between static and dynamic versions is left open.

Significance. If the constructions and submersion property are rigorously established, the work supplies a parameter-free geometric lift of unbalanced optimal transport to the manifold of Riemannian metrics, directly generalizing Otto's description of the Wasserstein metric. The explicit use of the L² metric on the transport component and the Ebin metric on the source component, together with the submersion result, provides a clean geometric relationship between metrics and their volume densities that may prove useful in shape analysis and geometric evolution equations.

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  1. [§3] §3 (dynamic formulation): the precise domain and regularity assumptions on the source term in the tangent space to the space of metrics should be stated explicitly so that the inner-product definition is manifestly well-defined on the correct bundle.
  2. [§6] The two proposed Kullback-Leibler-type divergences on metrics are introduced without explicit formulas; adding the expressions (even if only for the matrix-information-geometry version) would make the static formulation easier to compare with the dynamic one.
  3. [§3.2] The proof that the chosen penalization yields a positive-definite inner product (hence a genuine Riemannian metric) is asserted but would benefit from a short self-contained verification that the resulting bilinear form is non-degenerate on the tangent space.

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We thank the referee for their careful reading, positive assessment of the significance of the Wasserstein-Ebin metric construction, and recommendation for minor revision. The referee's summary correctly captures the dynamic and static formulations, the Riemannian submersion property of the volume map, and the open question regarding the link between static and dynamic versions.

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full rationale

The paper defines the Wasserstein-Ebin metric explicitly via a dynamic variational problem that augments transport with a source term, penalizing the vector field by the L2 metric and the source by the Ebin metric; it then proves the volume map is a Riemannian submersion onto the Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao metric. All steps are direct constructions and verifications from the chosen inner product and the differential geometry of the volume map, with no fitted parameters renamed as predictions, no self-definitional loops, and no load-bearing self-citations whose content reduces to the present claims. The derivation is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks in Riemannian geometry and optimal transport.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 1 assumptions · 1 invented entities

The constructions rest on standard background from differential geometry and optimal transport; the new metric is introduced by definition without external evidence.

assumptions (1)
  • domain assumption The manifold of Riemannian metrics carries the Ebin metric as a background structure used to penalize the source term.
    Invoked to define the dynamic formulation.
invented entities (1)
  • Wasserstein-Ebin metric
    purpose: New Riemannian metric on the space of Riemannian metrics obtained from the dynamic unbalanced transport formulation.
    Defined in the paper; no independent evidence supplied.

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abstract

We introduce dynamic and static formulations that formally extend unbalanced optimal transport from the space of positive densities to the space of Riemannian metrics. The first construction is based on a dynamic variational formulation in which the evolution of a Riemannian metric is driven by transport together with a source term. Choosing the $L^2$-metric to penalize the transport vector field and the Ebin metric to penalize the source component yields a new Riemannian metric on the manifold of Riemannian metrics, which we call the Wasserstein--Ebin metric. Our main result shows that the volume map defines a Riemannian submersion from the Wasserstein--Ebin metric to the Wasserstein--Fisher--Rao metric on the space of smooth densities. In addition, we construct a Riemannian submersion from the automorphism group of the tangent bundle onto the space of Riemannian metrics, providing a generalization of Otto's geometric description for the Wasserstein metric to the setting of the Wasserstein--Ebin metric. To propose a static formulation of unbalanced optimal Riemannian metric transport, we introduce two Kullback--Leibler-type divergences on the space of Riemannian metrics: one inspired by matrix information geometry, and another related, through the volume map, to the classical Kullback--Leibler divergence on densities. Establishing a link between the static and dynamic formulations remains an open direction for future work.

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