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This survey aims to provide a guide to the literature on topological 4-manifolds. Foundational theorems on 4-manifolds are stated, especially in the topological category. Precise references are given, with indications of the strategies…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-01-03 Stefan Friedl , Matthias Nagel , Patrick Orson , Mark Powell

Information is the basic concept of information theory. However, there is no definition of this concept that can encompass all uses of the term information in information theories and beyond. Many question a possibility of such a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-08-07 Mark Burgin

In this chapter, we study Information Geometry from a particular non-parametric or functional point of view. The basic model is a probabilities subset usually specified by regularity conditions. For example, probability measures mutually…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Goffredo Chirco , Giovanni Pistone

The present text is a collection of notes about differential geometry prepared to some extent as part of tutorials about topics and applications related to tensor calculus. They can be regarded as continuation to the previous notes on…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2016-09-12 Taha Sochi

The manifold of coupling constants parametrizing a quantum Hamiltonian is equipped with a natural Riemannian metric with an operational distinguishability content. We argue that the singularities of this metric are in correspondence with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Zanardi , P. Giorda , M. Cozzini

Information geometry uses the formal tools of differential geometry to describe the space of probability distributions as a Riemannian manifold with an additional dual structure. The formal equivalence of compositional data with discrete…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-28 Ionas Erb , Nihat Ay

Information geometry provides differential geometric concepts like a Riemannian metric, connections and covariant derivatives on spaces of probability distributions. We discuss here how these concepts apply to quantum field theories in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-11 Stefan Floerchinger

This is a short note for some basics of information geometry from thermodynamics and Callen's themostatistics.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-13 Tatsuaki Wada

The information geometry of the 2-manifold of gamma probability density functions provides a framework in which pseudorandom number generators may be evaluated using a neighbourhood of the curve of exponential density functions. The process…

Computation · Statistics 2009-07-13 C. T. J. Dodson

This paper aims at setting out the basics of $\mathbb{Z}$-graded manifolds theory. We introduce $\mathbb{Z}$-graded manifolds from local models and give some of their properties. The requirement to work with a completed graded symmetric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-29 Maxime Fairon

These informal notes deal with some basic properties of metric spaces, especially concerning lengths of curves.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-09-27 Stephen Semmes

In this paper and a companion paper, we show how the framework of information geometry, a geometry of discrete probability distributions, can form the basis of a derivation of the quantum formalism. The derivation rests upon a few…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-14 Philip Goyal

Quantum information geometry studies families of quantum states by means of differential geometry. A new approach is followed with the intention to facilitate the introduction of a more general theory in subsequent work. To this purpose,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Jan Naudts

We present an overview of the differential geometry of curves and surfaces using examples from soft matter as illustrations. The presentation requires a background only in vector calculus and is otherwise self-contained.

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Randall D. Kamien

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

Information geometry is an important tool to study statistical models. There are some important examples in statistical models which are regarded as warped products. In this paper, we study information geometry of warped products. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Yasuaki Fujitani

We consider a system with a discrete configuration space. We show that the geometrical structures associated with such a system provide the tools necessary for a reconstruction of discrete quantum mechanics once dynamics is brought into the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-12-03 Marcel Reginatto , Michael J. W. Hall

These notes are designed for those who either plan to work in differential geometry, or at least want to have a good reason not to do it. We discuss smooth curves and surfaces -- the main gate to differential geometry. We focus on the…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Anton Petrunin , Sergio Zamora Barrera

This article provides a gentle, visual introduction to the basic concepts of differential geometry appropriate for students familiar with special relativity. Visual methods are used to explain basics of differential geometry and build…

Physics Education · Physics 2026-03-26 Karol Urbański

This text is a short but comprehensive introduction to the basics of supergeometry and includes some of the recent advances in colored supergeometry. We do not aim for a standard text that states results and proves them more or less…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Norbert Poncin , Sarah Schouten