The Kantorovich metric: the initial history and little-known applications

DOI10.1007/s10958-006-0056-3zbMath1090.28009OpenAlexW2074189935MaRDI QIDQ2567698

Anatoly M. Vershik

Publication date: 11 October 2005

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/225549

zbMATH Keywords

transportation metricMonge-Kantorovich problemmatrix distributionBernoulli automorphismcomplete metric invariantmetric tripletstower of measures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measure-preserving transformations (28D05) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20)

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