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Wasserstein distance in terms of the comonotonicity Copula

Abstract

The aim of this article is to write the pp-Wasserstein metric WpW_p with the pp-norm, p[1,)p\in [1,\infty), on Rd\R^d in terms of copula. In particular for the case of one-dimensional distributions, we get that the copula employed to get the optimal coupling of the Wasserstein distances is the comotonicity copula. We obtain the equivalent result also for dd-dimensional distributions under the sufficient and necessary condition that these have the same dependence structure of their one-dimensional marginals, i.e that the dd-dimensional distributions share the same copula. Assuming pqp\neq q, p,qp,q [1,)\in [1,\infty) and that the probability measures μ\mu and ν\nu are sharing the same copula, we also analyze the Wasserstein distance Wp,qW_{p,q} discussed in \cite{Alfonsi} and get an upper and lower bounds of Wp,qW_{p,q} in terms of WpW_p, written in terms of comonotonicity copula. We show that as a consequence the lower and upper bound of Wp,qW_{p,q} can be written in terms of generalized inverse functions.

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