Fine properties of geodesics and geodesic \(\lambda\)-convexity for the Hellinger-Kantorovich distance (Q6181298)

The authors introduce the Hellinger-Kantorovich (HK) distance to analyze the interaction between optimal transport and optimal creation and destruction of mass in a convex domain of a finite-dimensional Euclidean space. The authors investigate the fine regularity properties of optimal potentials for the dual formulation of the HK problem. In the first part of the paper, the authors establish new regularity properties of solutions to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation arising in the dual HK problem. Then, they analyze new properties of the HK distance. The main part of the paper is devoted to investigating the structure of minimal geodesics and the geodesic \(\lambda\)-convexity of integral functionals with respect to the HK distance. In the final part, examples of geodesically convex functionals are presented.