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Dynamics of the Fisher Information Metric

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We present a method to generate probability distributions that correspond to metrics obeying partial differential equations generated by extremizing a functional J[gμν(θi)]J[g^{\mu\nu}(\theta^i)], where gμν(θi)g^{\mu\nu}(\theta^i) is the Fisher metric. We postulate that this functional of the dynamical variable gμν(θi)g^{\mu\nu}(\theta^i) is stationary with respect to small variations of these variables. Our approach enables a dynamical approach to Fisher information metric. It allows to impose symmetries on a statistical system in a systematic way. This work is mainly motivated by the entropy approach to nonmonotonic reasoning.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0410452,
  title  = {Dynamics of the Fisher Information Metric},
  author = {Xavier Calmet and Jacques Calmet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0410452},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages