Asymptotics of the quantization problem on metric measure spaces

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Main Author: Aydin, Ata Deniz
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contents The problem of quantization of measures looks for best approximations of probability measures on a metric space by discrete measures supported on $N$ points, where the error of approximation is measured with respect to the Wasserstein distance. Zador's theorem states that, for measures on $\mathbb{R}^d$ or $d$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds satisfying appropriate integrability conditions, the quantization error decays to zero as $N \to \infty$ at the rate $N^{-1/d}$. In this paper, we provide a general treatment of the asymptotics of quantization on metric measure spaces $(X, ν)$. We show that a weaker version of Zador's theorem involving the Hausdorff densities of $ν$ holds also in this general setting. We also prove Zador's theorem in full for appropriate $m$-rectifiable measures on Euclidean space, answering a conjecture by Graf and Luschgy in the affirmative. For both results, the higher integrability conditions of Zador's theorem are replaced with a general notion of $(p,s)$-quantizability, which follows from Pierce-type (non-asymptotic) upper bounds on the quantization error, and we also prove multiple such bounds at the level of metric measure spaces.
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spellingShingle Asymptotics of the quantization problem on metric measure spaces
Aydin, Ata Deniz
Metric Geometry
Analysis of PDEs
Optimization and Control
Primary: 49Q22, 94A34, 53C23, Secondary: 28A75, 49Q20, 51F30
The problem of quantization of measures looks for best approximations of probability measures on a metric space by discrete measures supported on $N$ points, where the error of approximation is measured with respect to the Wasserstein distance. Zador's theorem states that, for measures on $\mathbb{R}^d$ or $d$-dimensional Riemannian manifolds satisfying appropriate integrability conditions, the quantization error decays to zero as $N \to \infty$ at the rate $N^{-1/d}$. In this paper, we provide a general treatment of the asymptotics of quantization on metric measure spaces $(X, ν)$. We show that a weaker version of Zador's theorem involving the Hausdorff densities of $ν$ holds also in this general setting. We also prove Zador's theorem in full for appropriate $m$-rectifiable measures on Euclidean space, answering a conjecture by Graf and Luschgy in the affirmative. For both results, the higher integrability conditions of Zador's theorem are replaced with a general notion of $(p,s)$-quantizability, which follows from Pierce-type (non-asymptotic) upper bounds on the quantization error, and we also prove multiple such bounds at the level of metric measure spaces.
title Asymptotics of the quantization problem on metric measure spaces
topic Metric Geometry
Analysis of PDEs
Optimization and Control
Primary: 49Q22, 94A34, 53C23, Secondary: 28A75, 49Q20, 51F30
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18779