An elementary proof of the triangle inequality for the Wasserstein metric

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-07-09020-XzbMath1129.60006OpenAlexW2036308924MaRDI QIDQ5429456

Wolfgang Desch, Philippe Clément

Publication date: 30 November 2007

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9939-07-09020-x

zbMATH Keywords

Wasserstein metrictriangle inequalityprobability measures on metric spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability measures on topological spaces (60B05)

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