{ "id": "math/0602381", "version": "v1", "published": "2006-02-17T16:27:19.000Z", "updated": "2006-02-17T16:27:19.000Z", "title": "Distortion mismatch in the quantization of probability measures", "authors": [ "Siegried Graf", "Harald Luschgy", "Gilles Pagès" ], "comment": "25p", "categories": [ "math.PR" ], "abstract": "We elucidate the asymptotics of the L^s-quantization error induced by a sequence of L^r-optimal n-quantizers of a probability distribution P on R^d when s>r. In particular we show that under natural assumptions, the optimal rate is preserved as long as s