[MRG] Add Wasserstein barycenter for Gaussian distribution by tgnassou · Pull Request #582 · PythonOT/POT

Types of changes

This PR introduces a function to compute Bures-Wasserstein Barycenter

Motivation and context / Related issue

How has this been tested (if it applies)

I chek my code with the closed form for diagonal covariance, which has a closed form.

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