Hamilton-Jacobi approach to Potential Functions in Information Geometry
Mathematical Physics
2018-02-07 v2 math.MP
Quantum Physics
Abstract
The search for a potential function allowing to reconstruct a given metric tensor and a given symmetric covariant tensor on a manifold is formulated as the Hamilton-Jacobi problem associated with a canonically defined Lagrangian on . The connection between this problem, the geometric structure of the space of pure states of quantum mechanics, and the theory of contrast functions of classical information geometry is outlined.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1608.06584,
title = {Hamilton-Jacobi approach to Potential Functions in Information Geometry},
author = {Florio M. Ciaglia and Fabio Di Cosmo and Domenico Felice and Stefano Mancini and Giuseppe Marmo and Juan M. Pérez-Pardo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.06584},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
16 pages. A discussion on the Kullback-Leibler divergence has been added. To appear in Journal of Mathematical Physics