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A note on some information-theoretic divergences between Zeta distributions

Information Theory 2022-06-24 v3 math.IT

Abstract

We consider the zeta distributions which are discrete power law distributions that can be interpreted as the counterparts of the continuous Pareto distributions with unit scale. The family of zeta distributions forms a discrete exponential family with normalizing constants expressed using the Riemann zeta function. We report several information-theoretic measures between zeta distributions and study their underlying information geometry.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2104.10548,
  title  = {A note on some information-theoretic divergences between Zeta distributions},
  author = {Frank Nielsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.10548},
  year   = {2022}
}

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20 pages, 3 tables, 5 figures

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