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Barycenters in the Hellinger-Kantorovich space

Optimization and Control 2020-06-12 v2 Functional Analysis

Abstract

Recently, Liero, Mielke and Savar\'{e} introduced Hellinger-Kantorovich distance on the space of nonnegative Radon measures of a metric space XX [19,20]. We prove that Hellinger-Kantorovich barycenters always exist for a class of metric spaces containing of compact spaces, and Polish CAT(1)CAT(1) spaces; and if we assume further some conditions on starting measures, such barycenters are unique. We also introduce homogeneous multimarginal problems and illustrate some relations between their solutions with Hellinger-Kantorovich barycenters. Our results are analogous to the work of Agueh and Carlier [1] for Wassertein barycenters.

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@article{arxiv.1909.05513,
  title  = {Barycenters in the Hellinger-Kantorovich space},
  author = {Nhan-Phu Chung and Minh-Nhat Phung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.05513},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

27 pages. Minor changes. To appear in Applied Mathematics and Optimization