Riemannian metrics on positive definite matrices related to means
Abstract
The Riemannian metric on the manifold of positive definite matrices is defined by a kernel function in the form when is the spectral decomposition of the foot point and the Hermitian matrices are tangent vectors. For such kernel metrics the tangent space has an orthogonal decomposition. The pull-back of a kernel metric under a mapping is a kernel metric as well. Several Riemannian geometries of the literature are particular cases, for example, the Fisher-Rao metric for multivariate Gaussian distributions and the quantum Fisher information. In the paper the case is mostly studied when is a mean of the positive numbers and . There are results about the geodesic curves and geodesic distances. The geometric mean, the logarithmic mean and the root mean are important cases.
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@article{arxiv.0809.4974,
title = {Riemannian metrics on positive definite matrices related to means},
author = {F. Hiai and D. Petz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.4974},
year = {2008}
}
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28 pages