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Universal decay rate of the Fisher information along the heat flow

I'm looking for a reference for the following fact: In the torus $\mathbb T^d$ let me denote by $u_t=u(t,x)$ the (unique, distributional) solution of the heat equation $$ \partial_t u=\Delta u $$ ...
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1-Wasserstein distance between two multivariate normal

The $p$-Wasserstein between two measures $\nu_1$ and $\nu_2$ on $X$ is given by $$d_p(\nu_{1},\nu_{2})=\left(\underset{\pi\in\Gamma(\nu_{1},\nu_{2})}{\inf}\int_{\mathbf{\mathcal{X}}^{2}}d(x,y)^p\pi(dx,...
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The geometric median of a triangle

Let $\Omega\subset \mathbb R^n$ be a compact domain of dimension $n$. Define the geometric median on $\Omega$ as the point $m_{\Omega}\in \mathbb R^n$ such that the integral $\int_{\Omega}|x-m_{\Omega}...
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Manifold of probability measures: connections between two types of metrics

The space of probability measures could be viewed as an infinite-dimensional manifold, equipped with two possible types of metrics — (1) Wasserstein and (2) Fisher-Rao. Metric (1) is connected with ...
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continuity of the Boltzmann entropy in the Wasserstein metric

For Lebesgue-absolutely continuous probability measures $\rho\ll \mathcal{L}^d$ in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^d$ with finite second moments (i-e $\rho\in \mathcal{P}^2_{ac}(\mathbb{R}^d)$), let $$ \...
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The largest Wasserstein distance to uniform distribution among all probability distributions with uniform marginals

I am looking for the largest Wasserstein distance to the uniform distribution among all probability distributions with uniform marginals. More specifically, let $\Xi=\{1,2,\ldots,N\}^2$, and let $\nu$...
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Weak convergence + convergence of the norm implies strong convergence in Orlicz spaces

It is known [1, proposition 3.32] and a classical trick in PDEs that, in any uniformly convex Banach space $X$, weak convergence $x_n\rightharpoonup x$ together with convergence of the norm $\|x_n\|_X\...
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Are the sublevel sets of Boltzmann entropy compact in Wasserstein distance?

For Lebesgue-absolutely continuous probability measures $\rho\ll \mathcal{L}^d$ in the whole space $\mathbb{R}^d$ with finite second moments (i-e $\rho\in \mathcal{P}^2_{ac}(\mathbb{R}^d)$), let $$ \...
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$X$ Polish geodesic implies $(P_2(X), W_2)$ geodesic

If $X,d$ is a complete and separable space then the space of Borel probability measures with finite second moment on $X$ endowed with the Wasserstein distance $W_2$ is geodesic. I am looking for a ...
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Semi-discrete Wasserstein distance to uniform

Does the $p$-Wasserstein distance have a simpler expression when applied to these two distributions : A uniform distribution on $[0,1]^d$ A discrete distribution with $N$ equally-weighted point mass ...
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