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The Quantum Wasserstein Semidistance Is Not a Distance

Friedland and coauthors proposed a quantum analogue of the $p$-Wasserstein distance and conjectured that, though only a semidistance in general, it is a true distance for a particular quantum cost matrix and for cost matrices near it. The paper disproves both conjectures with an explicit family of triples of states violating the triangle inequality.

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quantum-information-computingJul 8, 2026Significance 15/100Registry: unreviewed

The Quantum Wasserstein Semidistance Is Not a Distance

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Friedland and coauthors proposed a quantum analogue of the $p$-Wasserstein distance and conjectured that, though only a semidistance in general, it is a true distance for a particular quantum cost matrix and for cost matrices near it. The paper disproves both conjectures with an explicit family of triples of states violating the triangle inequality.

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Friedland and coauthors proposed a quantum analogue of the $p$-Wasserstein distance and conjectured that, though only a semidistance in general, it is a true distance for a particular quantum cost matrix and for cost matrices near it. The paper disproves both conjectures with an explicit family of triples of states violating the triangle inequality.

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