The Wasserstein Distance between Two Probability Measures Carried by a Finite Set is Bounded by the Squared Diameter Times the Total Variation of the Masses
lemmaAnalysisProbabilitylem:finite-support-wasserstein-euclidean-2026aIf two probability measures on Euclidean space are carried by the same finite set of points whose mutual distances are at most D, then their squared Wasserstein distance is at most D squared times the sum over the points of the absolute differences of their masses.
In the setting of Wasserstein Spaces, Random Vectors, Vector Fields and Symmetric Matrices in Every Dimension: Standing Notation, whose probability space is not used, let , let be pairwise distinct and , whose subsets are Borel by Pairs of Euclidean Points: Coordinate Projections, Pairings, the Product Measure on a Euclidean Space, Borel Norm Functions and Finite Sets §finite-sets, let satisfy for all , and let satisfy and . The set is that of The Second Moment of a Probability Measure on Euclidean Space and the Probability Measures with Finite Second Moment §space, the Wasserstein distance, and the finite sum.
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