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Abstract
This article focuses on the metric orthogonal of the geometric tangent cone to the Wasserstein space. Some algebraic and topological properties are given, as well as a complete characterization and weak closedness property in dimension 1. It is shown that in general, the directional derivative of the Wasserstein distance is not sufficient to differentiate between the tangent cone and its orthogonal. To conclude, a general Helmholtz-Hodge decomposition is proved for measure fields.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Differential Equations is concerned with the theory and the application of differential equations. The articles published are addressed not only to mathematicians but also to those engineers, physicists, and other scientists for whom differential equations are valuable research tools.
Research Areas Include:
• Mathematical control theory
• Ordinary differential equations
• Partial differential equations
• Stochastic differential equations
• Topological dynamics
• Related topics