Timeline for Trasportation metric (AKA Earth-Mover's, Wasserstein, etc.) as "natural" / "induced"?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:58 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Nov 21, 2012 at 0:17 | vote | accept | Matteo Mainetti | ||
| Nov 20, 2012 at 23:36 | answer | added | Nik Weaver | timeline score: 11 | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 23:20 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | There is a functor $\text{Set} \to \text{Met}$ assigning a set the discrete metric on that set, and you can compose this functor with any functor to $\text{Set}$ (e.g. the functor that assigns a metric space the space of probability distributions over it) to get a functor to $\text{Met}$. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 22:40 | history | asked | Matteo Mainetti | CC BY-SA 3.0 |