Sharp inequalities between Zolotarev and Wasserstein distances in $$\mathcal {P}_2(\mathbb {R}^d)$$
Abstract Based on a new Kantorovich–Rubinstein duality principle for the Hessian that was recently established by the two authors, we extend the Rio inequality to any dimension $$d \ge 1$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>d</mml:mi> <mml:mo>≥</mml:mo> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> with an optimal constant. Similarly, we propose an optimal upper bound for the ratio of Zolotarev distance $$Z_2(\mu ,\nu )$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>Z</mml:mi> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:msub> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>μ</mml:mi> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mi>ν</mml:mi> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> to Wasserstein distance $$W_2(\mu ,\nu )$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>W</mml:mi> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:msub> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>μ</mml:mi> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mi>ν</mml:mi> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> when $$\mu ,\nu \in \mathcal {P}_2(\mathbb {R}^d)$$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>μ</mml:mi> <mml:mo>,</mml:mo> <mml:mi>ν</mml:mi> <mml:mo>∈</mml:mo> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>P</mml:mi> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> </mml:msub> <mml:mrow> <mml:mo>(</mml:mo> <mml:msup> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>R</mml:mi> </mml:mrow> <mml:mi>d</mml:mi> </mml:msup> <mml:mo>)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> </mml:mrow> </mml:math> are centred probabilities with prescribed variances.
Authors
- Karol Bołbotowski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3489-9221)
- Guy Bouchitté
Institutions
- Warsaw University of Technology (PL)
- Université de Toulon (FR)
- Medical University of Warsaw (PL)
- University of Warsaw (PL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Probability Theory and Related Fields
- Published
- 2026-07-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00440-026-01527-4
- Primary Topic
- Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche