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We show that the statistical manifold of normal distributions is homogeneous. In particular, it admits a $2$-dimensional solvable Lie group structure. In addition, we give a geometric characterization of the Amari-Chentsov…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-05-29 Hitoshi Furuhata , Jun-ichi Inoguchi , Shimpei Kobayashi

By the results of Furuhata--Inoguchi--Kobayashi [Inf. Geom. (2021)] and Kobayashi--Ohno [Osaka Math. J. (2025)], the Amari--Chentsov $\alpha$-connections on the space $\mathcal{N}$ of all $n$-variate normal distributions are uniquely…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Hikozo Kobayashi , Takayuki Okuda

We consider a family of $\alpha$-connections defined by a pair of generalized dual quasi-statistical connections $(\hat{\nabla},\hat{\nabla}^*)$ on the generalized tangent bundle $(TM\oplus T^*M, \check{h})$ and determine their curvature,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Adara M. Blaga , Antonella Nannicini

We define a metric and a family of $\alpha$-connections in statistical manifolds, based on $\varphi$-divergence, which emerges in the framework of $\varphi$-families of probability distributions. This metric and $\alpha$-connections…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Rui F. Vigelis , David C. de Souza , Charles C. Cavalcante

We study invariant statistical connections on the space $\mathcal{N}_0^n$ of zero-mean multivariate normal distributions (the multivariate centered Gaussian model) equipped with the Fisher metric $g^F$. We introduce moduli spaces of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Hideyuki Ishi , Hikozo Kobayashi , Takayuki Okuda

We review basic notions in the field of information geometry such as Fisher metric on statistical manifold, $\alpha$-connection and corresponding curvature following Amari's work . We show application of information geometry to asymptotic…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-10-14 Mashbat Suzuki

We give a new geometric interpretation of the Amari-Cencov $\alpha$-connections $\nabla^{(\alpha)}$ from information geometry: On the space of densities $\operatorname{Dens}_+(M)$, we show that there exist Riemannian metrics $G^\alpha$,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Martin Bauer , Alice Le Brigant , Cy Maor

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

We will show that a statistical manifold $(M, g, \nabla)$ has a constant curvature if and only if it is a projectively flat conjugate symmetric manifold, that is, the affine connection $\nabla$ is projectively flat and the curvatures…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Shimpei Kobayashi , Yu Ohno

We study the family of $\alpha$-connections of Amari-Chentsov on the homogeneous space $\mathcal{D}(M)/\mathcal{D}_\mu(M)$ of diffeomorphisms modulo volume-preserving diffeomorphims of a compact manifold $M$. We show that in some cases…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-22 Jonatan Lenells , Gerard Misiolek

Given a non-degenerate $(0,2)$-tensor field $h$ on a smooth manifold $M$, we consider a natural generalized complex and a generalized product structure on the generalized tangent bundle $TM\oplus T^*M$ of $M$ and we show that they are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Adara M. Blaga , Antonella Nannicini

The paper will study a new quarter-symmetric non-metric connection on a generalized Riemannian manifold. It will determine the relations that the torsion tensor satisfies. The exterior derivative of the skew-symmetric part $F$ of basic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Miroslav Maksimović

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

Neuronal activity is found to lie on low-dimensional manifolds embedded within the high-dimensional neuron space. Variants of principal component analysis are frequently employed to assess these manifolds. These methods are, however,…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-19 Peter Bouss , Sandra Nestler , Kirsten Fischer , Claudia Merger , Alexandre René , Moritz Helias

Let (M,g) be a compact, connected and oriented Riemannian manifold. We denote D the space of smooth probability density functions on M. In this paper, we show that the Frechet manifold D is equipped with a Riemannian metric g^{D} and an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-04-04 Mathieu Molitor

We show that a bi-flat F-structure $(\nabla,\circ,e,\nabla^*,*,E)$ on a manifold $M$ defines a differential bicomplex $(d_{\nabla},d_{E\circ\nabla^*})$ on forms with value on the tangent sheaf of the manifold. Moreover, the sequence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-22 Alessandro Arsie , Paolo Lorenzoni

We consider an inference on the eigenvalues of the covariance matrix of a multivariate normal distribution. The family of multivariate normal distributions with a fixed mean is seen as a Riemannian manifold with Fisher information metric.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-12 Yo Sheena

The goal of this paper is to study the geometry of the connected unit component of the real general linear Lie group $4$ dimensional $G_0$ as a Lorentzian and flat affine manifold. As the group $G_0$ is naturally equipped with a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-05-21 Alberto Medina , Andres Villabon

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

In this paper, we consider a smooth connected finite-dimensional manifold $M$, an affine connection $\nabla$ with holonomy group $H^{\nabla}$ and $\Delta$ a smooth completely non integrable distribution. We define the $\Delta$-horizontal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-11-04 Boutheina Hafassa , Amina Mortada , Yacine Chitour , Petri Kokkonen
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