Suppose we have two independent high-dimensional samples:
$$
\boldsymbol{y}_{i1},\ldots,\boldsymbol{y}_{in_i}, \;\operatorname{are \; i.i.d. \; with}\; \operatorname{E}(\boldsymbol{y}_{i1})=\boldsymbol{\mu}_i,\; \operatorname{Cov}(\boldsymbol{y}_{i1})=\boldsymbol{\Sigma},i=1,2.
$$
The primary object is to test
$$H_{0}: \boldsymbol{\mu}_1 = \boldsymbol{\mu}_2\; \operatorname{versus}\; H_{1}: \boldsymbol{\mu}_1 \neq \boldsymbol{\mu}_2.$$
Bai and Saranadasa (1996) proposed the following centralised \(L^2\)-norm-based test statistic:
$$T_{BS} = \frac{n_1n_2}{n} \|\bar{\boldsymbol{y}}_1 - \bar{\boldsymbol{y}}_2\|^2-\operatorname{tr}(\hat{\boldsymbol{\Sigma}}),$$
where \(\bar{\boldsymbol{y}}_{i},i=1,2\) are the sample mean vectors and \(\hat{\boldsymbol{\Sigma}}\) is the pooled sample covariance matrix.
They showed that under the null hypothesis, \(T_{BS}\) is asymptotically normally distributed.