An application of approach theory to the relative Hausdorff measure of non-compactness for the Wasserstein metric (Q509022)

After an extensive review of the theory of approach spaces the authors define an approach structure on the set of all Borel probability measures on a metric space \(S\) and prove that the Wasserstein metric is the metrization of this approach structure. In the final section the measure of non-uniform integrability of a collection \(\Gamma\) of Borel measures is defined and it is shown that this value is always smaller than the measure of non-compactness of \(\Gamma\) for the approach structure that was defined earlier.