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Towards a Canonical Divergence within Information Geometry
In Riemannian geometry geodesics are integral curves of the Riemannian
distance gradient. We extend this classical result to the framework of
Information Geometry. In particular, we prove that the rays of level-sets
defined by a pseudo-distance are generated by the sum of two tangent vectors.
By relying on these vectors, we propose a novel definition of canonical
divergence and its dual function. We prove that the new divergence allows to
recover a given dual structure of a smooth
manifold . Additionally, we show that this divergence reduces to
the canonical divergence proposed by Ay and Amari in the case of: (a)
self-duality, (b) dual flatness, (c) statistical geometric analogue of the
concept of symmetric spaces in Riemannian geometry. The case (c) leads to a
further comparison of the novel divergence with the one introduced by Henmi and
Kobayashi.Comment: 68 Pages, 4 figure