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Laplacian operator on statistical manifold

Differential Geometry 2022-02-18 v1 Information Theory math.IT

Abstract

In this paper, we define a Laplacian operator on a statistical manifold, called the vector Laplacian. This vector Laplacian incorporates information from the Amari-Chentsov tensor. We derive a formula for the vector Laplacian. We also give two applications using the heat kernel associated with the vector Laplacian.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2202.08386,
  title  = {Laplacian operator on statistical manifold},
  author = {Ruichao Jiang and Javad Tavakoli and Yiqiang Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.08386},
  year   = {2022}
}
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