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Is it a coincidence that the universal parabolic constant shows up in the solution to square point picking?

The expected distance $d$ of randomly selected points within a unit square to the square's center is $d = \frac{1}{6} P$ where P is the universal parabolic constant $P = \sqrt{2} + \ln{\left(1+\...
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Wasserstein distance in R^d from one dimensional marginals

This question occurred to me while I was reading Klartag's papers on central limit theorems for convex bodies. Given probability measures $\mu$, $\nu$ on (the Borel $\sigma$-field of) $R^d$ with ...