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Deformed Statistics Kullback-Leibler Divergence Minimization within a Scaled Bregman Framework

Statistical Mechanics 2015-05-27 v3 Information Theory Mathematical Physics math.IT math.MP

Abstract

The generalized Kullback-Leibler divergence (K-Ld) in Tsallis statistics [constrained by the additive duality of generalized statistics (dual generalized K-Ld)] is here reconciled with the theory of Bregman divergences for expectations defined by normal averages, within a measure-theoretic framework. Specifically, it is demonstrated that the dual generalized K-Ld is a scaled Bregman divergence. The Pythagorean theorem is derived from the minimum discrimination information-principle using the dual generalized K-Ld as the measure of uncertainty, with constraints defined by normal averages. The minimization of the dual generalized K-Ld, with normal averages constraints, is shown to exhibit distinctly unique features.

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@article{arxiv.1102.1025,
  title  = {Deformed Statistics Kullback-Leibler Divergence Minimization within a Scaled Bregman Framework},
  author = {R. C. Venkatesan and A. Plastino},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.1025},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

16 pages. Iterative corrections and expansions

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