Fine properties of geodesics and geodesic -convexity for the Hellinger-Kantorovich distance

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



Abstract: We study the fine regularity properties of optimal potentials for the dual formulation of the Hellinger--Kantorovich problem (HK), providing sufficient conditions for the solvability of the primal Monge formulation. We also establish new regularity properties for the solution of the Hamilton--Jacobi equation arising in the dual dynamic formulation of HK, which are sufficiently strong to construct a characteristic transport-dilation flow driving the geodesic interpolation between two arbitrary positive measures. These results are applied to study relevant geometric properties of HK geodesics and to derive the convex behaviour of their Lebesgue density along the transport flow. Finally, exact conditions for functionals defined on the space of measures are derived that guarantee the geodesic lambda-convexity with respect to the Hellinger--Kantorovich distance. Examples of geodesically convex functionals are provided.


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.



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