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A note on Gromov-Hausdorff-Prokhorov distance between (locally) compact measure spaces

Metric Geometry 2013-01-28 v1 Probability

Abstract

We present an extension of the Gromov-Hausdorff metric on the set of compact metric spaces: the Gromov-Hausdorff-Prokhorov metric on the set of compact metric spaces endowed with a finite measure. We then extend it to the non-compact case by describing a metric on the set of rooted complete locally compact length spaces endowed with a locally finite measure. We prove that this space with the extended Gromov-Hausdorff-Prokhorov metric is a Polish space. This generalization is needed to define L\'evy trees, which are (possibly unbounded) random real trees endowed with a locally finite measure.

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@article{arxiv.1202.5464,
  title  = {A note on Gromov-Hausdorff-Prokhorov distance between (locally) compact measure spaces},
  author = {Romain Abraham and Jean-Francois Delmas and Patrick Hoscheit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.5464},
  year   = {2013}
}