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This paper explores the Riemannian geometry of the Wasserstein space of the circle, namely $P(S^{1})$, the set of probability measures on the unit circle endowed with the 2-Wasserstein metric. Building on the foundational work of Otto,…

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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 review the information geometry of linear systems and its application to Bayesian inference, and the simplification available in the K\"ahler manifold case. We find conditions for the information geometry of linear systems to be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-15 Jaehyung Choi , Andrew P. Mullhaupt

This paper is a study of almost contact statistical manifolds. Especially this study is focused on almost cosymplectic statistical manifolds. We obtained basic properties of such manifolds. It is proved a characterization theorem and a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-01-31 Aziz Yazla , İrem Küpeli Erken , Cengizhan Murathan

In this work, the dual flatness, which is connected with Statistics and Information geometry, of general $(\alpha,\beta)$-metrics (a new class of Finsler metrics) is studied. A nice characterization for such metrics to be dually flat under…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-05 Changtao Yu

For a smooth quasi-projective surface S over complex numbers we consider the Borel-Moore homology of the stack of coherent sheaves on S with compact support and make this space into an associative algebra by a version of the Hall…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-31 Mikhail Kapranov , Eric Vasserot

We study the statistical geometry of random chords on n-dimensional spheres by deriving explicit analytical expressions for the chord length distribution and its associated structural properties. A critical threshold emerges at dimension…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Masoud Ataei

A Stiefel manifold of the compact type is often encountered in many fields of Engineering including, signal and image processing, machine learning, numerical optimization and others. The Stiefel manifold is a Riemannian homogeneous space…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Rudrasis Chakraborty , Baba Vemuri

The space of probability densities is an infinite-dimensional Riemannian manifold, with Riemannian metrics in two flavors: Wasserstein and Fisher--Rao. The former is pivotal in optimal mass transport (OMT), whereas the latter occurs in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Klas Modin

A dualistic structure on a smooth Riemaniann manifold $M$ is a triple $(M,g,\nabla)$ with $g$ a Riemaniann metric and $\nabla$ an affine connection, generally assumed to be torsionless. From $g$ and $\nabla$, the dual connection $\nabla^*$…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-21 E. Gnandi , S. Puechmorel

Exponential families are a particular class of statistical manifolds which are particularly important in statistical inference, and which appear very frequently in statistics. For example, the set of normal distributions, with mean {\mu}…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Mathieu Molitor

Random orthogonal matrices play an important role in probability and statistics, arising in multivariate analysis, directional statistics, and models of physical systems, among other areas. Calculations involving random orthogonal matrices…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Michael Jauch , Peter D. Hoff , David B. Dunson

Inspired by the work of Zagier, we study geometrically the probability measures $m_y$ with support on the closed horocycles of the unit tangent bundle $M=\text{PSL}(2,\mathbb{R})/\text{PSL}(2,\mathbb{Z})$ of the modular orbifold…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Alberto Verjovsky

Let $X$ be a compact connected Riemann surface and $D$ an effective divisor on $X$. Let ${\mathcal N}_H(r,d)$ denote the moduli space of $D$-twisted stable Higgs bundles (a special class of Hitchin pairs) on $X$ of rank $r$ and degree $d$.…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Indranil Biswas , Marina Logares , Ana Peón-Nieto

We provide a survey of results on the statistics of random sections of holomorphic line bundles on K\"ahler manifolds, with an emphasis on the resulting asymptotics when a line bundle is raised to increasing tensor powers. We conclude with…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Bernard Shiffman , Steve Zelditch

We study the geometric properties of the manifold of states described as (uniform) matrix product states. Due to the parameter redundancy in the matrix product state representation, matrix product states have the mathematical structure of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Jutho Haegeman , Michaël Mariën , Tobias J. Osborne , Frank Verstraete

A geometric framework for quantum statistical estimation is used to establish a series of higher order corrections to the Heisenberg uncertainty relations associated with pairs of canonically conjugate variables. These corrections can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston

In this work some advances in the theory of curvature of two-dimensional probability manifolds corresponding to families of distributions are proposed. It is proved that location-scale distributions are hyperbolic in the Information…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Giuseppe Giacopelli , Andrea De Gaetano

We realize specific classical symmetric spaces, like the semi-K\"ahler symmetric spaces discovered by Berger, as cotangent bundles of symmetric flag manifolds. These realizations enable us to describe these cotangent bundles' geodesics and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Leonardo F. Cavenaghi , Carolina Garcia , Lino Grama , Luiz San Martin

This work forms a foundational study of factorization homology, or topological chiral homology, at the generality of stratified spaces with tangential structures. Examples of such factorization homology theories include intersection…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-02-10 David Ayala , John Francis , Hiro Lee Tanaka