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arxiv: 0704.0876 · v1 · submitted 2007-04-06 · 🧮 math.PR

Non-monotone convergence in the quadratic Wasserstein distance

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keywords distancequadraticwassersteinbookconvergenceconvolutionscounter-exampledecrease
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We give an easy counter-example to Problem 7.20 from C. Villani's book on mass transport: in general, the quadratic Wasserstein distance between $n$-fold normalized convolutions of two given measures fails to decrease monotonically.

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