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A new Riemannian geometry for the Compound Gaussian distribution is proposed. In particular, the Fisher information metric is obtained, along with corresponding geodesics and distance function. This new geometry is applied on a change…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-21 Florent Bouchard , Ammar Mian , Jialun Zhou , Salem Said , Guillaume Ginolhac , Yannick Berthoumieu

We extend the application of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo to allow for sampling from probability distributions defined over symmetric or Hermitian positive definite matrices. To do so, we exploit the Riemannian structure induced by Cartan's…

Computation · Statistics 2016-12-28 Andrew Holbrook , Shiwei Lan , Alexander Vandenberg-Rodes , Babak Shahbaba

Electromagnetism in an inhomogeneous dielectric medium at rest is described using the methods of differential geometry. In contrast to a general relativistic approach the electromagnetic fields are discussed in three-dimensional space only.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Paul Piwnicki

Geodesics escape is widely used to study the scattering of hyperbolic equations. However, there are few progresses except in a simply connected complete Riemannian manifold with nonpositive curvature. We propose a kind of complete…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Zhen-Hu Ning , Fengyan Yang , Xiaopeng Zhao

The Hellinger distance between quantum states is a significant measure in quantum information theory, known for its Riemannian and monotonic properties. It is also easier to compute than the Bures distance, another measure that shares these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-24 Vinay Kumar , Kaushik Vasan , Santosh Kumar

Metrics have been used to investigate the relationship between wavefunction distances and density distances for families of specific systems. We extend this research to look at random potentials for time-dependent single electron systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 A. H. Skelt , R. W. Godby , I. D'Amico

Based on a local approximation of the Riemannian distance on a manifold by a computationally cheap dissimilarity measure, a time discrete geodesic calculus is developed, and applications to shape space are explored. The dissimilarity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-10-03 Martin Rumpf , Benedikt Wirth

The Fisher-Rao distance is the geodesic distance between probability distributions in a statistical manifold equipped with the Fisher metric, which is a natural choice of Riemannian metric on such manifolds. It has recently been applied to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Henrique K. Miyamoto , Fábio C. C. Meneghetti , Julianna Pinele , Sueli I. R. Costa

Let a finite set of points $\{\xi_1,...,\xi_k\}$ be chosen in a metric space $(X,d)$, and let the squared distance matrix $\mathfrak{D}=(\mathfrak{D}(\xi_i,\xi_j)^2)_{i,j=1}^{k}$ be constructed from them. We propose a geometric approach to…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Alexander Plakhotnikov

We show how the Riemannian distance on $\mathbb{S}^n_{++}$, the cone of $n\times n$ real symmetric or complex Hermitian positive definite matrices, may be used to naturally define a distance between two such matrices of different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-06 Lek-Heng Lim , Rodolphe Sepulchre , Ke Ye

We investigate the geometrical structure of probabilistic generative dimensionality reduction models using the tools of Riemannian geometry. We explicitly define a distribution over the natural metric given by the models. We provide the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-12-01 Alessandra Tosi , Søren Hauberg , Alfredo Vellido , Neil D. Lawrence

Upon a consistent topological statistical theory the application of structural statistics requires a quantification of the proximity structure of model spaces. An important tool to study these structures are Pseudo-Riemannian metrices,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Patrick Michl

The space of probability densities is an infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifold, with Riemannian metrics in two flavors: Wasserstein and Fisher--Rao. The former is pivotal in optimal mass transport (OMT), whereas the latter occurs in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Klas Modin

The Riemannian metric on the manifold of positive definite matrices is defined by a kernel function $\phi$ in the form $K_D^\phi(H,K)=\sum_{i,j}\phi(\lambda_i,\lambda_j)^{-1} Tr P_iHP_jK$ when $\sum_i\lambda_iP_i$ is the spectral…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-08 F. Hiai , D. Petz

This paper presents an overview of recent developments in the analysis of shapes such as curves and surfaces through Riemannian metrics. We show that several constructions of metrics on spaces of submanifolds can be unified through the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon , Laurent Younes

Consider the sum of the first $N$ eigenspaces for the Laplacian on a Riemannian manifold. A basis for this space determines a map to Euclidean space and for $N$ sufficiently large the map is an embedding. In analogy with a fruitful idea of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-04-30 Eric Potash

What is the shortest path between two data points lying in a high-dimensional space? While the answer is trivial in Euclidean geometry, it becomes significantly more complex when the data lies on a curved manifold -- requiring a Riemannian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Louis Béthune , David Vigouroux , Yilun Du , Rufin VanRullen , Thomas Serre , Victor Boutin

In order to compare and interpolate signals, we investigate a Riemannian geometry on the space of signals. The metric allows discontinuous signals and measures both horizontal (thus providing many benefits of the Wasserstein metric) and…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Ruiyu Han , Dejan Slepčev , Yunan Yang

We propose a new metric between probability measures on a compact metric space that mirrors the Riemannian manifold-like structure of quadratic optimal transport but includes entropic regularization. Its metric tensor is given by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Hugo Lavenant , Jonas Luckhardt , Gilles Mordant , Bernhard Schmitzer , Luca Tamanini

The space of all non degenerate bilinear structures on a manifold $M$ carries a one parameter family of pseudo Riemannian metrics. We determine the geodesic equation, covariant derivative, curvature, and we solve the geodesic equation…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Olga Gil-Medrano , Peter W. Michor , Martin Neuwirther