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Connection between Wassertein-2 metric and difference in variance

Given two probability densities $\mu\in\mathcal P(\mathbb R^d)$ and $\nu\in\mathcal P(\mathbb R^d)$, we define their Wasserstein-$p$ metric as $$ W_p^p(\mu, \nu)=\inf_{\gamma\in \Gamma(\mu, \nu)}\int_{...
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Getting Wasserstein closeness from a derivative estimate

In my setting, $\mu$ and $\nu$ are probability measures on $\mathbb{R}^{2}$ with compact support. For any function $f\in{C^{2}_{b}(\mathbb{R}^{2})}$, I have the estimate: $$ |\mathbb{E}_{\mu}(f)-\...
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Is the Wasserstein distance to the empirical measure minimized by the underlying distribution?

Let $S$ be a metric space and denote the set of probability measures on $S$ by $\mathcal{P}(S)$. Fix $\mu\in \mathcal{P}(S)$ and denote the law of $N\geq 1$ i.i.d samples $X=(X_1,\ldots,X_N)$ from $\...
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Closed-form formula for Wasserstein distance between uniform discrete distribution and discrete distribution with same support

Let $x_1,\ldots,x_n$ be $n \ge 1$ distinct points in $\mathbb R^d$ and consider two discrete distributions on these points $\mu = (1/n)\sum_{i=1}^n\delta_{x_i}$, and $\nu = \sum_{i=1}^n\nu_i\delta_{...
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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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