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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 SS allowing to reconstruct a given metric tensor gg and a given symmetric covariant tensor TT on a manifold M\mathcal{M} is formulated as the Hamilton-Jacobi problem associated with a canonically defined Lagrangian on TMT\mathcal{M}. 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.

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@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

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