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We give detailed exposition of modern differential geometry from global coordinate independent point of view as well as local coordinate description suited for actual computations. In introduction, we consider Euclidean spaces and different…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 M. O. Katanaev

Information geometry provides a geometric approach to families of statistical models. The key geometric structures are the Fisher quadratic form and the Amari-Chentsov tensor. In statistics, the notion of sufficient statistic expresses the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Nihat Ay , Jürgen Jost , Hông Vân Lê , Lorenz Schwachhöfer

Some examples and basic properties of ultrametric spaces are briefly discussed.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-11-06 Stephen Semmes

A recently introduced canonical divergence $\mathcal{D}$ for a dual structure $(\mathrm{g},\nabla,\nabla^*)$ is discussed in connection to other divergence functions. Finally, open problems concerning symmetry properties are outlined.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-07 Domenico Felice , Nihat Ay

It is known that statistical model selection as well as identification of dynamical equations from available data are both very challenging tasks. Physical systems behave according to their underlying dynamical equations which, in turn, can…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Sean Alan Ali , Carlo Cafaro

Using the square-root map p-->\sqrt{p} a probability density function p can be represented as a point of the unit sphere S in the Hilbert space of square-integrable functions. If the density function depends smoothly on a set of parameters,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-31 Dorje C. Brody , Daniel W. Hook

We review the notion of shape tensor of an embedded manifold, which efficiently combines intrinsic and extrinsic geometry, and allows for intuitive understanding of some basic concepts of classical differential geometry, such as parallel…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-10 Vaclav Zatloukal

We introduce a new information-geometric structure associated with the dynamics on discrete objects such as graphs and hypergraphs. The presented setup consists of two dually flat structures built on the vertex and edge spaces,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Tetsuya J. Kobayashi , Dimitri Loutchko , Atsushi Kamimura , Shuhei A. Horiguchi , Yuki Sughiyama

A new field of discrete differential geometry is presently emerging on the border between differential and discrete geometry. Whereas classical differential geometry investigates smooth geometric shapes (such as surfaces), and discrete…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-19 Alexander I. Bobenko , Yuri B. Suris

This survey article is an introduction to Diophantine Geometry at a basic undergraduate level. It focuses on Diophantine Equations and the qualitative description of their solutions rather than detailed proofs.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Pranabesh Das , Amos Turchet

Contrast functions play a fundamental role in information geometry, providing a means for generating the geometric structures of a statistical manifold: a pseudo-Riemannian metric and a pair of torsion-free conjugate affine connections.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Florio M. Ciaglia , Giuseppe Marmo , Marco Pacelli , Luca Schiavone , Alessandro Zampini

Imaging systems are represented as linear operators, and their singular value spectra describe the structure recoverable at the operator level. Building on an operator-based information-theoretic framework, this paper introduces a minimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Charles Wood

The closure conditions of the inexact exterior differential form and dual form (an equality to zero of differentials of these forms) can be treated as a definition of some differential-geometrical structure. Such a connection discloses the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-09-07 L. I. Petrova

Information Geometry has been used to inspire efficient algorithms for stochastic optimization, both in the combinatorial and the continuous case. We give an overview of the authors' research program and some specific contributions to the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Luigi Malagò , Giovanni Pistone

Manifold learning is a popular and quickly-growing subfield of machine learning based on the assumption that one's observed data lie on a low-dimensional manifold embedded in a higher-dimensional space. This thesis presents a mathematical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Luke Melas-Kyriazi

This paper introduces several fundamental concepts in information theory from the perspective of their origins in engineering. Understanding such concepts is important in neuroscience for two reasons. Simply applying formulae from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Mark D. McDonnell , Shiro Ikeda , Jonathan H. Manton

This is the first version of a submission made to vixra back in August 2009. It is concerned with the exploration of various ideas due to Roy Frieden of the University of Arizona in his manuscript "Physics from Fisher Information", which…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-01-28 Christopher John Goddard

We develop a language for describing the relationship among observations, mathematical models, and the underlying principles from which they are derived. Using Information Geometry, we consider geometric properties of statistical models for…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-07-14 Mark K. Transtrum , Gus Hart , Peng Qiu

The main theme of this workshop (Dagstuhl seminar 04351) is `Spatial Representation: Continuous vs. Discrete'. Spatial representation has two contrasting but interacting aspects (i) representation of spaces' and (ii) representation by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jonathan Gratus , Timothy Porter

In our previous arXiv papers (more systematically the informational conception is presented in the paper "The Information as Absolute", 2010) it was rigorously shown that Matter in our Universe - and Universe as a whole - are some…

General Physics · Physics 2011-05-05 S. V. Shevchenko , V. V. Tokarevsky