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The information metric on the space of boundary coupling constants in two-dimensional conformal field theories is studied. Such a metric is related to the Casimir energy difference of the theory defined on an interval. We concretely compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-24 Kenta Suzuki , Yu-ki Suzuki , Takashi Tsuda , Masataka Watanabe

In a recent paper, a new conformally flat metric was introduced, describing an expanding scalar field in a spherically symmetric geometry. The spacetime can be interpreted as a Schwarzschild-like model with an apparent horizon surrounding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-16 Pantelis S. Apostolopoulos , Christos Tsipogiannis

We examine phase transition of the Husimi-Temperley model in terms of information geometry. For this purpose, we introduce the Fisher metric defined by the density matrix of the model. We find that the metric becomes hyperbolic at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-11 Yoichiro Hashizume , Hiroaki Matsueda

The radar experiment connects the geometry of spacetime with an observers measurement of spatial length. We investigate the radar experiment on Finsler spacetimes which leads to a general definition of radar orthogonality and radar length.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-08 Christian Pfeifer

The approach of metric-affine field theory is to define spacetime as a real oriented 4-manifold equipped with a metric and an affine connection. The 10 independent components of the metric tensor and the 64 connection coefficients are the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Alastair D. King , Dmitri Vassiliev

Measuring the similarity between data points often requires domain knowledge, which can in parts be compensated by relying on unsupervised methods such as latent-variable models, where similarity/distance is estimated in a more compact…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-13 Nutan Chen , Alexej Klushyn , Francesco Ferroni , Justin Bayer , Patrick van der Smagt

A measure of asymmetry is a quantification method that allows for the comparison of categorical evaluations before and after treatment effects or among different target populations, irrespective of sample size. We focus on square…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-10-22 Wataru Urasaki , Go Kawamitsu , Tomoyuki Nakagawa , Kouji Tahata

We show how Fisher's information already known particular character as the fundamental information geometric object which plays the role of a metric tensor for a statistical differential manifold, can be derived in a relatively easy manner…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marco Masi

We describe inflation in terms of a time dependent quantum density matrix with time playing the role of a stochastic variable. Using a quasi-de Sitter model we compute the corresponding quantum Fisher information function as the second…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-16 Cesar Gomez , Raul Jimenez

Taking the flat rotation curve as input and treating the matter content in the galactic halo region as perfect fluid, we obtain space time metric at the galactic halo region in the framework of general relativity. We find that the resultant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-26 F. Rahaman , K. K. Nandi , A. Bhadra , M. Kalam , K. Chakraborty

Here, we derive the metric for the spacetime around rotating object for the gravity action having nonlocal correction of $R\Box^{-2} R $ to the Einstein-Hilbert action. Starting with the generic stationary, axisymmetric metric, we solve the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-02 Utkarsh Kumar , Sukanta Panda , Avani Patel

Linear perturbations on Minkowski space are used to probe numerically the remote region of an asymptotically flat space-time close to spatial infinity. The study is undertaken within the framework of Friedrich's conformal field equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-04 Florian Beyer , Georgios Doulis , Jörg Frauendiener , Ben Whale

We introduce a definition of symmetry generating vector fields on manifolds which are equipped with a first-order reductive Cartan geometry. We apply this definition to a number of physically motivated examples and show that our newly…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-23 Manuel Hohmann

The physical meaning of the Levi-Civita spacetime for some "critical" values of the parameter sigma, is discussed in the light of gedanken experiments performed with gyroscopes circumventing the axis of symmetry. The fact that sigma=1/2…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 L. Herrera , J. Ruifernandez , N. O. Santos

A holographic correspondence between data on horizon and space-time physics is investigated. We find similarities with the AdS/CFT correspondence, based on the observation that the optical metric near the horizon describes a Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Ivo Sachs , Sergey N. Solodukhin

Recent advancements have revealed new links between information geometry and classical stochastic thermodynamics, particularly through the Fisher information (FI) with respect to time. Recognizing the non-uniqueness of the quantum Fisher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Laetitia P. Bettmann , John Goold

We use the method of maximum entropy to model physical space as a curved statistical manifold. It is then natural to use information geometry to explain the geometry of space. We find that the resultant information metric does not describe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-31 Ariel Caticha

The Maxwell equations are formulated on an arbitrary (1+3)-dimensional manifold. Then, imposing a (constrained) linear constitutive relation between electromagnetic field $(E,B)$ and excitation $({\cal D},{\cal H})$, we derive the metric of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Yuri N. Obukhov , Friedrich W. Hehl

Informational dependence between statistical or quantum subsystems can be described with Fisher matrix or Fubini-Study metric obtained from variations of the sample/configuration space coordinates. Using these non-covariant objects as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 Vitaly Vanchurin

In terms of spin-charge separated variables, the Minkowski space Yang-Mills BPST instanton describes a locally conformally flat doubly-wrapped cigar manifold that can be viewed as a Euclidean quantum black hole. An ensemble of instantons…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-04 Sergey Slizovskiy