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On the continuity with respect to the increasing convex order

For $p\ge 1$, let $\mathcal P_p(\mathbb R)$ be the set of probability measures on $\mathbb R$ of finite $p^{\rm th}$ moment. Denote by $W_p$ the Wasserstein metric of order $p$ and by $\preceq$ the ...
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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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Approximation of two densities with a single transformation

Let $p_1$ and $p_2$ be two probability densities and $X_i\sim N(\mu_i,\Sigma_i)$. Write $w(X)\sim p$ if the law of the random variable $w(X)$ has a density equal to $p$. For general densities $p_i$, ...
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How to compute the unique disintegration w.r.t. the first coordinate?

Set $\pi=\frac{1}{4}(\delta_{(1,0)}++\delta_{(1,3)}+\delta_{(1,1)}+\delta_{(2,2)})$. Suppose that $\pi\in\Pi(\mu,\nu)$. How to get the disintegration of $\pi$ with respect to $\mu$?
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Arbitrarily bad rates of convergence in Wasserstein metric

Suppose $W_p(\mu_n,\mu)\to 0$ and $d(E(\mu_n),E(\mu))<r_n$. Here, $W_p$ is the $p$th-order Wasserstein distance (with respect to the metric $d$) and $\mu_n,\mu$ are probability measures on some ...
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Moduli of continuity and Wasserstein differentiability of functions between measures

Let $X=\mathbb{R}^n$; I am also interested in the general case $X$ is a metric space but for simplicity let's focus on Euclidean space. Let $\mathcal{P}(X)$ denote the space of Borel probability ...
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About the metrizability of the space of Probability measures $\mathcal{P}(S)$

It is often proved in Books that the space of Probability measures $\mathcal{P}(S)$ on a Polish metric space $(S,\rho)$ endowed with the weak/narrow topology induced by declaring it to be be the ...
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How to control Wasserstein distance in terms of characteristic function

Let $\mathcal P(\Omega)$ be the set of probability measures supported on some compact subset $\Omega\subset\mathbb R^d$. For $\mu\in\mathcal P(\Omega)$, denote by $F_{\mu}$ its characteristic function,...
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Simplify Wasserstein distance between Gaussians with binary cost function

Let $\mu_1$ and $\mu_2$ be 1D gaussian distributions with means $m_1$ and $m_2$ respectively and common variance $\sigma$. Let $\Omega$ be a closed subset of $\mathbb R^2$, and consider the cost ...
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Kantorovich duality with pseudometrics

The usual framework for the Kantorovich duality in optimal transport theory uses Polish spaces as ground spaces for the distributions that should be transported. Are there results available that ...
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On semi-discrete Wasserstein distance

Let $\mu(dx)=\sum_{i=1}^np_i\delta_{x_i}(dx)$ and $\nu(dy)=\rho(y)dy$ be two probability measures on $\mathbb R^d$, where $\nu$ has a bounded support. Consider the $2-$Wasserstein distance below: $$...
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