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In this work we: (1) review likelihood-based inference for parameter estimation and the construction of confidence regions; and, (2) explore the use of techniques from information geometry, including geodesic curves and Riemann scalar…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-01 Jesse A Sharp , Alexander P Browning , Kevin Burrage , Matthew J Simpson

Latent representations are an important theme in modern machine learning. Any network training with the notion of locality introduces a latent geometry which we can analyze with the help of differential geometry, specifically information…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-07 Rebecca Maria Kuntz , Tilman Plehn , Björn Malte Schäfer , Benedikt Schosser , Sophia Vent

We discuss the recently proposed description of Kuramoto model in terms of hyperbolic space and relate it to the information geometry. In particular the dynamical equation in Kuramoto all-to-all model is identified with the gradient flow of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-03 Artem Alexandrov , Alexander Gorsky

Random non-commutative geometries are a novel approach to taking a non-perturbative path integral over geometries. They were introduced in arxiv.org/abs/1510.01377, where a first examination was performed. During this examination we found…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-14 Lisa Glaser

A general link between geometry and intermittency in passive scalar turbulence is established. Intermittency is qualitatively traced back to events where tracer particles stay for anomalousy long times in degenerate geometries characterized…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Celani , M. Vergassola

We consider torsion in parameter manifolds that arises via conformal transformations of the Fisher information metric, and define it for information geometry of a wide class of physical systems. The torsion can be used to differentiate…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal , Tapobrata Sarkar

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 flat sheet programmed with a planar pattern of spontaneous shape change will morph into a curved surface. Such metric mechanics is seen in growing biological sheets, and may be engineered in actuating soft matter sheets such as…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-07-01 Fan Feng , Daniel Duffy , Mark Warner , John S. Biggins

We present a systematic and consistent construction of geometrothermodynamics by using Riemannian contact geometry for the phase manifold and harmonic maps for the equilibrium manifold. We present several metrics for the phase manifold that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Hernando Quevedo , Alberto Sanchez , Safia Taj , Alejandro Vazquez

A coarse grained description of a two phase fluid is used to study the steady state configuration of the interface separating the coexisting phases, and the motion of the contact line at which the interface intersects a solid boundary. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hsuan-Yi Chen , David Jasnow , Jorge Vinals

The application of geometry to physics has provided us with new insightful information about many physical theories such as classical mechanics, general relativity, and quantum geometry (quantum gravity). The geometry also plays an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hoshang Heydari

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-14 Philip Goyal

Information geometry and inductive inference methods can be used to model dynamical systems in terms of their probabilistic description on curved statistical manifolds. In this article, we present a formal conceptual reexamination of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-29 C. Cafaro , A. Giffin , S. A. Ali , D. -H. Kim

As phenomena that necessarily emerge from the collective behavior of interacting particles, phase transitions continue to be difficult to predict using statistical thermodynamics. A recent proposal called the topological hypothesis suggests…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-08 O. B. Ericok , J. K. Mason

This paper surveys recent numerical advances in the phase field method for geometric surface evolution and related geometric nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). Instead of describing technical details of various numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Qiang Du , Xiaobing Feng

The raise and peel model is a one-dimensional stochastic model of a fluctuating interface with nonlocal interactions. This is an interesting physical model. It's phase diagram has a massive phase and a gapless phase with varying critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Francisco C. Alcaraz , Vladimir Rittenberg

It is known that statistical model selection as well as identification of dynamical equations from available data are both very challenging tasks. Physical systems behave according to their underlying dynamical equations which, in turn, can…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Sean Alan Ali , Carlo Cafaro

We study information geometry of the thermodynamics of first and second order phase transitions, and beyond criticality, in magnetic and liquid systems. We establish a universal microscopic characterization of such phase transitions via the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-30 Anshuman Dey , Pratim Roy , Tapobrata Sarkar

We develop a transitional geometry, that is, a family of geometries of constant curvatures which makes a continuous connec-tion between the hyperbolic, Euclidean and spherical geometries. In this transitional setting, several geometric…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-24 Athanase Papadopoulos , Norbert A'Campo

An interface description and numerical simulations of model A kinetics are used for the first time to investigate the intra-surface kinetics of phase ordering on corrugated surfaces. Geometrical dynamical equations are derived for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Oliver Schoenborn , Rashmi C. Desai