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arxiv: 1504.06745 · v2 · pith:WID2H6FEnew · submitted 2015-04-25 · 🧮 math.ST · math.PR· stat.TH

Extreme points of a ball about a measure with finite support

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We show that, for the space of Borel probability measures on a Borel subset of a Polish metric space, the extreme points of the Prokhorov, Monge-Wasserstein and Kantorovich metric balls about a measure whose support has at most n points, consist of measures whose supports have at most n+2 points. Moreover, we use the Strassen and Kantorovich-Rubinstein duality theorems to develop representations of supersets of the extreme points based on linear programming, and then develop these representations towards the goal of their efficient computation.

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