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Dec 2, 2021 at 12:57 comment added ABIM @NikWeaver No worries; but it's also a pleasure to discuss with you (especially after reading you book/some of your papers)
Dec 1, 2021 at 21:15 comment added Nik Weaver Sure. Sorry I can't be more helpful about your main question ...
Dec 1, 2021 at 19:22 comment added ABIM @NikWeaver Ah, you're right; this is very simple actually. Thanks.
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Dec 1, 2021 at 13:21 comment added Nik Weaver No, the problem is that if $X$ is unbounded then you can have probability measures whose integral against some Lipschitz function is infinite.
Dec 1, 2021 at 2:54 comment added ABIM As a final thought, on my end, if we equip $\mathcal{F}(X)$ with a Borel probability measure $\nu$, then since $K$ is compact then one can combine the measurable maximum theorem (18.19 in Charalambos et al.'s book) and Lusin's Theorem to conclude that a metric projection must exist on a closed subset of $\mathcal{F}(X)$ of arbitrarily-high $\nu$-probability. (Though, this is kind of cheating).
Dec 1, 2021 at 2:40 comment added ABIM @NikWeaver Fair, initially I was thinking of $\epsilon$-best projections (like in Respov's book; Chapter 6) but this also seemed difficult and a likely less explored research question by others.
Dec 1, 2021 at 2:39 comment added ABIM @NikWeaver Ins't the modification just $\mu \mapsto \mu - \delta_{x}$ (for the distinguishe point $x$)?
Dec 1, 2021 at 2:34 comment added Nik Weaver BTW if $X$ isn't compact then you don't get $\mathcal{W}(X) \subset \mathcal{F}(X)$, but you can slightly modify the definition of $\mathcal{W}(X)$ so that this works. This is probably well-known, but anyway it's done in this paper.
Dec 1, 2021 at 2:32 comment added Nik Weaver As far as I know, exact projections onto nearest points of convex subsets requires reflexivity, which you never have for $\mathcal{F}(X)$ when $X$ is infinite. What you're asking for is weaker, but still seems unlikely to me.
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