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On the monotonicity of scalar curvature in classical and quantum information geometry

Mathematical Physics 2009-11-10 v2 math.MP

Abstract

We study the statistical monotonicity of the scalar curvature for the alpha-geometries on the simplex of probability vectors. From the results obtained and from numerical data we are led to some conjectures about quantum alpha-geometries and Wigner-Yanase-Dyson information. Finally we show that this last conjecture implies the truth of the Petz conjecture about the monotonicity of the scalar curvature of the Bogoliubov-Kubo-Mori monotone metric.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0407007,
  title  = {On the monotonicity of scalar curvature in classical and quantum information geometry},
  author = {P. Gibilisco and T. Isola},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0407007},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

20 pages, 2 .eps figures; (v2) section 2 rewritten, typos corrected