Behavior of the empirical Wasserstein distance in ${\mathbb R}^d$ under moment conditions

Abstract

We establish some deviation inequalities, moment bounds and almost sure results for the Wasserstein distance of order $p\in [1, \infty )$ between the empirical measure of independent and identically distributed ${\mathbb R}^d$-valued random variables and the common distribution of the variables. We only assume the existence of a (strong or weak) moment of order $rp$ for some $r>1$, and we discuss the optimality of the bounds.