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We obtain essentially matching upper and lower bounds for the expected max-sliced 1-Wasserstein distance between a probability measure on a separable Hilbert space and its empirical distribution from n samples. By proving a Banach space version of this result, we also obtain an upper bound, that is sharp up to a log factor, for the expected max-sliced 2-Wasserstein distance between a symmetric probability measure \(\mu \) on a Euclidean space and its symmetrized empirical distribution in terms of the operator norm of the covariance matrix of \(\mu \) and the diameter of the support of \(\mu \).
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