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p-Wasserstein distance (Wp​(μ,ν))

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For 1≤p<∞ and probability measures with finite pth absolute moments,
Wp​(μ,ν)=(infπ∈Π(μ,ν)​∫ρ(x,y)pdπ(x,y))1/p,
(1)
where ρ is the ground metric and π ranges over transport plans. For p=2 this is the second Wasserstein distance.

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