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A coarse grained Wigner distribution p_{W}(x,u) obeying positivity derives out of information-theoretic considerations. Let p(x,u) be the unknown joint PDF (probability density function) on position- and momentum fluctuations x,u for a pure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. Roy Frieden , Bernard H. Soffer

The relevance of the concept of Fisher information is increasing in both statistical physics and quantum computing. From a statistical mechanical standpoint, the application of Fisher information in the kinetic theory of gases is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Carlo Cafaro , Paul M. Alsing

We propose a new partially topological theory in three dimensions which couples Chern-Simons theory to matter. The 3-manifolds needed for this construction admit transverse holomorphic foliation (THF). The theory depends only on the choice…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-29 Mina Aganagic , Kevin Costello , Jacob McNamara , Cumrun Vafa

A model in statistical mechanics, characterised by the corresponding Gibbs measure, is a subset of the totality of probability distributions on the phase space. The shape of this subset, i.e., the geometry, then plays an important role in…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 D. C. Brody , A. Ritz

Forecasts of statistical constraints on model parameters using the Fisher matrix abound in many fields of astrophysics. The Fisher matrix formalism involves the assumption of Gaussianity in parameter space and hence fails to predict complex…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 B. Joachimi , A. N. Taylor

A robust prediction model invoking the Takens embedding theorem, whose \textit{working hypothesis} is obtained via an inference procedure based on the minimum Fisher information principle, is presented. The coefficients of the ansatz,…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-04-26 R. C. Venkatesan , A. Plastino

Fine-tuning and naturalness, the sensitivity of low-energy observables to small changes in the fundamental parameters of a theory, are cornerstones of physics beyond the Standard Model. We propose a new measure of fine-tuning based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-04 James Halverson , Thomas R. Harvey , Michael Nee

Information theory is a powerful framework to capture aspects of dynamical systems with multiple degrees of freedom. Mathematically, the dynamics can be represented as a continuous curve $\mathcal{C}$ on a suitable hyperplane in flat space…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mattia Carrino , Stefan Hohenegger

We find the information geometry of tempered stable processes. Beginning with the derivation of $\alpha$-divergence between two tempered stable processes, we obtain the corresponding Fisher information matrices and the $\alpha$-connections…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Jaehyung Choi

Our results concern geometry of a manifold endowed with a pair of complementary orthogonal distributions (plane fields) and a time-dependent Riemannian metric. The work begins with formulae concerning deformations of geometric quantities as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Vladimir Rovenski , Robert Wolak

Information geometry and Wasserstein geometry are two main structures introduced in a manifold of probability distributions, and they capture its different characteristics. We study characteristics of Wasserstein geometry in the framework…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Shun-ichi Amari , Takeru Matsuda

In information geometry, one of the basic problem is to study the geomet-ric properties of statistical manifold. In this paper, we study the geometricstructure of the generalized normal distribution manifold and show that it has constant…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-04-05 Mingao Yuan

We define a mixed topology on the fiber space $\cup_\mu \oplus^n L^n(\mu)$ over the space $\mathcal{M}(\Omega)$ of all finite non-negative measures $\mu$ on a separable metric space $\Omega$ provided with Borel $\sigma$-algebra. We define a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-01-26 Hông Vân Lê

We consider a general setting for dynamic tensor field tomography in an inhomogeneous refracting and absorbing medium as inverse source problem for the associated transport equation. Following Fermat's principle the Riemannian metric in the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Lukas Vierus , Thomas Schuster

We use the general setting for contrast (potential) functions in statistical and information geometry provided by Lie groupoids and Lie algebroids. The contrast functions are defined on Lie groupoids and give rise to two-forms and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-11-04 Katarzyna Grabowska , Janusz Grabowski , Marek Kus , Giuseppe Marmo

In this paper, we introduce \emph{$\ell^p$-information geometry}, an infinite dimensional framework that shares key features with the geometry of the space of probability densities \( \mathrm{Dens}(M) \) on a closed manifold, while also…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Levin Maier

Nondegenerate covariance, correlation and spectral density matrices are necessarily symmetric or Hermitian and positive definite. The main contribution of this paper is the development of statistical data depths for collections of Hermitian…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-12 Joris Chau , Hernando Ombao , Rainer von Sachs

The Fisher-Rao distance between two probability distributions of a statistical model is defined as the Riemannian geodesic distance induced by the Fisher information metric. In order to calculate the Fisher-Rao distance in closed-form, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Frank Nielsen

Given a holomorphic family $f:\mathcal{X} \to S$ of compact complex manifolds and a relative ample line bundle $L\to \mathcal{X}$, the higher direct images $R^{n-p}f_*\Omega^p_{\mathcal{X}/S}(L)$ carry a natural hermitian metric. Using the…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-12-05 Philipp Naumann

In this paper I discuss the relation between the concept of the Fisher metric and the concept of differentiability of a family of probability measures. I compare the concepts of smooth statistical manifolds, differentiable families of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Hông Vân Lê