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In this paper, we show how information geometry, the natural geometry of discrete probability distributions, can be used to derive the quantum formalism. The derivation rests upon three elementary features of quantum phenomena, namely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-14 Philip Goyal

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

In this dissertation, an abstract formalism extending information geometry is introduced. This framework encompasses a broad range of modelling problems, including possible applications in machine learning and in the information theoretical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-01-06 Ben Anthonis

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

A number of recent studies have estimated the inter-galactic void probability function and investigated its departure from various random models. We study a family of parametric statistical models based on gamma distributions, which do give…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-27 C. T. J. Dodson

We review a nonparametric version of Amari's Information Geometry in which the set of positive probability densities on a given sample space is endowed with an atlas of charts to form a differentiable manifold modeled on Orlicz Banach…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-17 Giovanni Pistone

This paper explores the Bergman geometry of bounded domains $\Omega$ in $\mathbb{C}^n$ through the lens of information geometry by introducing a mapping $\Phi: \Omega \rightarrow \mathcal{P}(\Omega)$, where $\mathcal{P}(\Omega)$ denotes a…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Gunhee Cho , Jihun Yum

Wasserstein geometry and information geometry are two important structures to be introduced in a manifold of probability distributions. Wasserstein geometry is defined by using the transportation cost between two distributions, so it…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-01-01 Shun-ichi Amari , Takeru Matsuda

We show that gamma distributions provide models for departures from randomness since every neighbourhood of an exponential distribution contains a neighbourhood of gamma distributions, using an information theoretic metric topology. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Khadiga Arwini , C. T. J. Dodson

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

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…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-06-05 Brodie A. J. Lawson , Kevin Burrage , Kerrie Mengersen , Rodrigo Weber dos Santos

We show that a Frobenius sturcture is equivalent to a dually flat sturcture in information geometry. We define a multiplication structure on the tangent spaces of statistical manifolds, which we call the statistical product. We also define…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Ruichao Jiang , Javad Tavakoli , Yiqiang Zhao

In this article, we present recent developments of information geometry, namely, geometry of the Fisher metric, dualistic structures and divergences on the space of probability measures, particularly the theory of geodesics of the Fisher…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Mitsuhiro Itoh , Hiroyasu Satoh

In recent years, the unified theory of information and thermodynamics has been intensively discussed in the context of stochastic thermodynamics. The unified theory reveals that information theory would be useful to understand…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-23 Sosuke Ito

We study a family of parametric statistical models based on gamma distributions, which do give realistic descriptions for other stochastic porous media. Gamma distributions contain as a special case the exponential distributions, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 C. T. J. Dodson

We study a connection between chemical thermodynamics and information geometry. We clarify a relation between the Gibbs free energy of an ideal dilute solution and an information-geometric quantity called an $f$-divergence. From this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-11 Kohei Yoshimura , Sosuke Ito

The primary objects of study in information geometry are statistical manifolds, which are parametrized families of probability measures, induced with the Fisher-Rao metric and a pair of torsion-free conjugate connections. In recent work,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Gabriel Khan , Jun Zhang

This introductory text arises from a lecture given in G\"oteborg, Sweden, given by the first author and is intended for undergraduate students, as well as for any mathematically inclined reader wishing to explore a synthesis of ideas…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Noémie C. Combe , Philippe G. Combe , Hanna K. Nencka

I review recent works showing that information geometry is a useful framework to characterize quantum coherence and entanglement. Quantum systems exhibit peculiar properties which cannot be justified by classical physics, e.g. quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-08 Davide Girolami

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