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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 348 5 b Solution by
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Let , and first suppose . On any transport plan , which has total mass one, the Holder inequality givesAlso, givesTaking infima, or using arbitrarily close competitors if an infimum is not attained, yieldsFor the two distances coincide, and if there is only one probability measure, so the conclusion is immediate. For and , the displayed bounds imply both directions ofFor , exchange the exponents. Thus all finite-order p-Wasserstein distances induce the same convergence on a bounded subset of . Closedness of is not required for these estimates.
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