Laboratoire de Mathématiques Raphaël Salem

UMR 6085 CNRS - Université de Rouen Normandie

The space of measures with finite second moment, when endowed with the Wasserstein distance, is a geodesic space but not a vector space. Therefore, building an adequate differential calculus is not straightforward, and currently subject of debate in the literature. We review the main definitions in use in the Hamilton-Jacobi and Mean Fields communities, with examples illustrating the nature of the objects and comments on the range and limitations of each point of view.