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The Wasserstein distances

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Part of the Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften book series (GL,volume 338)

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Assume, as before, that you are in charge of the transport of goods between producers and consumers, whose respective spatial distributions are modeled by probability measures.

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  • Optimal Transport
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Correspondence to Cédric Villani .

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Villani, C. (2009). The Wasserstein distances. In: Optimal Transport. Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, vol 338. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71050-9_6

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