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Choosing the Fisher information as the metric tensor for a Riemannian manifold provides a powerful yet fundamental way to understand statistical distribution families. Distances along this manifold become a compelling measure of statistical…

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A general model for geometric structures on differentiable manifolds is obtained by deforming infinitesimal symmetries. Specifically, this model consists of a Lie algebroid, equipped with an affine connection compatible with the Lie…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-03-07 Anthony D. Blaom

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…

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This paper presents new geometric aspects of the behaviors of solutions to the porous medium equation (PME) and its associated equation. First we discuss the Legendre structure with information geometry on the manifold of generalized…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-12-16 Atsumi Ohara , Tatsuaki Wada

In this survey, we describe the fundamental differential-geometric structures of information manifolds, state the fundamental theorem of information geometry, and illustrate some use cases of these information manifolds in information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Frank Nielsen

We study the statistical monotonicity of the scalar curvature for the alpha-geometries on the simplex of probability vectors. From the results obtained and from numerical data we are led to some conjectures about quantum alpha-geometries…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Gibilisco , T. Isola

Geometry of hypersurfaces defined by the relation which generalizes classical formula for free energy in terms of microstates is studied. Induced metric, Riemann curvature tensor, Gauss-Kronecker curvature and associated entropy are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Mario Angelelli , Boris Konopelchenko

A statistical manifold is a pseudo-Riemannian manifold endowed with a Codazzi structure. This structure plays an important role in Information Geometry and its related fields, e.g., a statistical model admits this structure with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Kaito Kayo

It is well known that quantum mechanics admits a geometric formulation on the complex projective space as a Kahler manifold. In this paper we consider the notion of mutual information among continuous random variables in relation to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Davide Pastorello

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

We review a number a recent advances in the study of two-dimensional statistical models with strong geometrical constraints. These include folding problems of regular and random lattices as well as the famous meander problem of enumerating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Di Francesco , E. Guitter

We study the sectional curvature of plane distributions on 3-manifolds. We show that if the distribution is a contact structure it is easy to manipulate this curvature. As a corollary we obtain that for every transversally oriented contact…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Vladimir Krouglov

Many stochastic complex systems are characterized by the fact that their configuration space doesn't grow exponentially as a function of the degrees of freedom. The use of scaling expansions is a natural way to measure the asymptotic growth…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-15 Jan Korbel , Rudolf Hanel , Stefan Thurner

The communications and interrelations between different locations on the Earth's surface have far-reaching implications for both social and natural systems. Effective spatial analytics ideally require a spatial representation, where…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-02 Hezhishi Jiang , Liyan Xu , Tianshu Li , Jintong Tang , Zekun Chen , Yuxuan Wang , Hongmou Zhang , Yu Liu

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

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

In this paper, we study the geometry of the manifolds of geodesics of a Zoll surface of positive Gauss curvature, show how these metrics induce Finsler metrics of constant flag curvature and give some explicit constructions.

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We investigate geometric properties of surfaces given by certain formulae. In particular, we calculate the singular curvature and the limiting normal curvature of such surfaces along the set of singular points consisting of singular points…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-03-25 Yoshiki Matsushita , Takuya Nakashima , Keisuke Teramoto

We construct 2-surfaces of prescribed mean curvature in 3-manifolds carrying asymptotically flat initial data for an isolated gravitating sysqtem with rather general decay conditions. The surfaces in question form a regular foliation of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Jan Metzger

We study a differential geometric construction, the warped product, on the background geometry for information theory. Divergences, dual structures and symmetric 3-tensor are studied under this construction, and we show that warped product…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Nicolás Martínez Alba , Olga Garatejo Escobar