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Dual Connections and Holonomy

Differential Geometry 2015-11-25 v1

Abstract

Dual affine connections on Riemannian manifolds have played a central role in the field of information geometry since their introduction by Amari. Here I would like to extend the notion of dual connections to general vector bundles with an inner product, in the same way as a unitary connection generalizes a metric affine connection, using Cartan decompositions of Lie algebras. This gives a natural geometric interpretation for the Amari tensor, as a "connection form term" which generates dilations, and which is reversed for the dual connections.

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@article{arxiv.1511.07737,
  title  = {Dual Connections and Holonomy},
  author = {Paolo Perrone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.07737},
  year   = {2015}
}
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