Folded optimal transport and its application to separable quantum optimal transport

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01722v1
• Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:32:33 GMT
• Title: Folded optimal transport and its application to separable quantum optimal transport
• Authors: Thomas Borsoni,
• Abstract summary: We introduce folded optimal transport, as a way of extending a cost or distance defined on the extreme boundary of a convex to the whole set.<n>We study the metric properties it provides to the convex.<n> Folded optimal transport provides a unified setting for both classical and separable quantum optimal transport.
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• Abstract: We introduce folded optimal transport, as a way of extending a cost or distance defined on the extreme boundary of a convex to the whole set, broadening the framework of standard optimal transport, found to be the particular case where the convex is a simplex. Relying on Choquet's theory and standard optimal transport, we introduce the so-called folded Kantorovitch cost and folded Wasserstein distance, and study the metric properties it provides to the convex. We then apply the construction to the quantum setting, and obtain an actual separable quantum Wasserstein distance on the set of density matrices from a distance on the set of pure states, closely related to the semi-distance of Beatty and Stilck-França [3], and of which we obtain a variety of properties. Folded optimal transport provides a unified setting for both classical and separable quantum optimal transport, and we also find that the semiclassical Golse-Paul [12] cost writes as a folded Kantorovitch cost.

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