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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 establish a universal framework for concentration inequalities based on invariance under diffeomorphism groups. Given a probability measure $\mu$ on a space $E$ and a diffeomorphism $\psi: E \to F$, concentration properties transfer…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-12 Jocelyn Nembé

The Euler equation of an ideal (i.e. inviscid incompressible) fluid can be regarded, following V.Arnold, as the geodesic flow of the right-invariant $L^2$-metric on the group of volume-preserving diffeomorphisms of the flow domain. In this…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-10-16 Anton Izosimov , Boris Khesin

We discuss several geometric PDEs and their relationship with Hydrodynamics and classical Electrodynamics. We start from the Euler equations of ideal incompressible fluids that, geometrically speaking, describe geodesics on groups of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yann Brenier

We introduce a geometric framework to study Newton's equations on infinite-dimensional configuration spaces of diffeomorphisms and smooth probability densities. It turns out that several important PDEs of hydrodynamical origin can be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Boris Khesin , Gerard Misiolek , Klas Modin

Two geometrical structures have been extensively studied for a manifold of probability distributions. One is based on the Fisher information metric, which is invariant under reversible transformations of random variables, while the other is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-02 Shun-ichi Amari , Ryo Karakida , Masafumi Oizumi

The problem of incompressible fluid mixing arises in numerous engineering applications and has been well-studied over the years, yet many open questions remain. This paper aims to address the question "what do efficient flow fields for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-15 Max Emerick , Bassam Bamieh

Recent advances in generative models highlight the power of geometry-aware modeling in manifold-constrained settings. Yet, for natural images, the field remains confined to Euclidean assumptions, failing to exploit the potential of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Junho Lee , Kwanseok Kim , Joonseok Lee

We establish an exact equivalence between the Functional Renormalization Group (FRG) and the Ricci flow modified by a potential-driven diffeomorphism. By reformulating the Polchinski exact renormalization group equation into an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Ki-Seok Kim

This paper is concerned with the theory and applications of varifolds to the representation, approximation and diffeomorphic registration of shapes. One of its purpose is to synthesize and extend several prior works which, so far, have made…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-16 Hsi-Wei Hsieh , Nicolas Charon

This paper introduces the use of unbalanced optimal transport methods as a similarity measure for diffeomorphic matching of imaging data. The similarity measure is a key object in diffeomorphic registration methods that, together with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-19 Jean Feydy , Benjamin Charlier , François-Xavier Vialard , Gabriel Peyré

Recently, Holm, Marsden, and Ratiu [1998] have derived a new model for the mean motion of an ideal fluid in Euclidean space given by the equation $\dot{V}(t) + \nabla_{U(t)} V(t) - \alpha^2 [\nabla U(t)]^t \cdot \triangle U(t) =…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Steve Shkoller

We construct information geometry for hydrodynamics with global gauge and gravitational anomalies in $1+1$ and $3+1$ dimensions. We introduce the metric on a parameter space and show that turning on non-zero rotations leads to a curvature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-19 Piotr Surówka

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

We are interested in the geometry of the group $\mathcal{D}_q(M)$ of diffeomorphisms preserving a contact form $\theta$ on a manifold $M$. We define a Riemannian metric on $\mathcal{D}_q(M)$, compute the corresponding geodesic equation, and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-02-21 David G. Ebin , Stephen C. Preston

Information theoretic geometry near critical points in classical and quantum systems is well understood for exactly solvable systems. Here we show that renormalization group flow equations can be used to construct the information metric and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-21 Reevu Maity , Subhash Mahapatra , Tapobrata Sarkar

Moving mesh methods are designed to redistribute a mesh in a regular way. This applied problem can be considered to overlap with the problem of finding a diffeomorphic mapping between density measures. In applications, an off-the-shelf grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-23 Axel G. R. Turnquist

We consider Heisenberg groups equipped with a sub-Finsler metric. Using methods of optimal control theory we prove that in this geometric setting the infinite geodesics are horizontal lines under the assumption that the sub-Finsler metric…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-30 Z. M. Balogh , A. Calogero

We generalize the classical Fisher information metric on statistical models to $L^p$-metrics on various spaces of differential forms or group of diffeomorphisms. Using this new interpretation from information geometry, we derive several new…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Yuxiu Lu

Deformed generalized gauge groups, whch were created from physical considerations and made it possible to clarify some long-standing problems in physics, such as the problem of motion and the problem of the energy of the gravitational…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-17 Serhii Samokhvalov , Olena Balakireva