The Joint Law of Two Classes of Square-Integrable Random Vectors: Marginals, Cost, and Invariance Under Shifts by a Vector Field
lemmaAnalysisProbabilitylem:joint-law-random-vectors-wasserstein-2026aTwo classes of square-integrable random vectors have a well-defined joint law with finite second moment, whose marginals are their laws and which is a coupling of them with cost the mean-square distance; equality of joint laws is preserved when the same vector field of the common first law is added, with a common factor, to the second vectors.
In the setting of Wasserstein Spaces, Random Vectors, Vector Fields and Symmetric Matrices in Every Dimension: Standing Notation, let , the space of classes of square-integrable random vectors in with its norm and the law of a class, and let be the second moment of that clause. Push-forwards are those of Probability Measures on Euclidean Space and Random Vectors: Standing Notation §pushforward, and are the coordinate projections of . For representatives of and of , their pairing is a random vector in by Basic Properties of Random Vectors: Coordinates, Borel Images and Arithmetic, Change of Variables, Almost Sure Equality and Pairs §pair, with the law of that definition. Couplings and their quadratic cost are as fixed in Wasserstein Spaces, Random Vectors, Vector Fields and Symmetric Matrices in Every Dimension: Standing Notation §dimensions, and for in the space the composition is that of that clause. Then the following hold.
1. (The joint law)¶ The law of the pairing of representatives of and of does not depend on the representatives chosen; it is called the joint law of and and written . It belongs to , and
2. (Marginals and cost)¶ and ; thus is a coupling of and , and its quadratic cost is
3. (Invariance under shifts by a vector field)¶ Suppose that . Then , so that and are the same space and is defined for in it; and for every and every ,
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