Mass transport and uniform rectifiability

Abstract: In this paper we characterize the so called uniformly rectifiable sets of David and Semmes in terms of the Wasserstein distance

W_{2}

from optimal mass transport. To obtain this result, we first prove a localization theorem for the distance

W_{2}

which asserts that if

m u

and

u

are probability measures in

R^{n}

,

p h i

is a radial bump function smooth enough so that

i n t p h i d m u g t r s i m 1

, and

m u

has a density bounded from above and from below on the support of phi, then

W_{2} (p h i m u, a p h i u) l e q c W_{2} (m u, u),

where

a = i n t p h i d m u / i n t p h i, d u

.

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