The Riemannian metric on the manifold of positive definite matrices is defined by a kernel function φ in the form K D(H,K) = ∑ i,j φ(λi, λj) −1TrPiHPjK when ∑ i λiPi is the spectral decomposition of the foot point D and the Hermitian matrices H,K are tangent vectors. For such kernel metrics the tangent space has an orthogonal decomposition. The pull-back of a kernel metric under a mapping D 7→ ...

A geometric approach to quantum mechanics with unitary evolution and nonunitary collapse processes is developed. In this approach the Schrödinger evolution of a quantum system is a geodesic motion on the space of states of the system furnished with an appropriate Riemannian metric. The measuring device is modeled by a perturbation of the metric. The process of measurement is identified with a g...

The Riemannian metric on the manifold of positive definite matrices is defined by a kernel function φ in the form K D(H,K) = ∑ i,j φ(λi, λj) −1TrPiHPjK when ∑ i λiPi is the spectral decomposition of the foot point D and the Hermitian matrices H,K are tangent vectors. For such kernel metrics the tangent space has an orthogonal decomposition. The pull-back of a kernel metric under a mapping D 7→ ...

The L-metric or Fubini-Study metric on the non-linear Grassmannian of all submanifolds of type M in a Riemannian manifold (N, g) induces geodesic distance 0. We discuss another metric which involves the mean curvature and shows that its geodesic distance is a good topological metric. The vanishing phenomenon for the geodesic distance holds also for all diffeomorphism groups for the L-metric.

In this paper we consider the space of those probability distributions which maximize the q-Rényi entropy. These distributions have the same parameter space for every q, and in the q = 1 case these are the normal distributions. Some methods to endow this parameter space with Riemannian metric is presented: the second derivative of the q-Rényi entropy, Tsallis-entropy and the relative entropy gi...

We investigate the geometric structure of a nonequilibrium process and its geodesic solutions. By employing an exactly solvable model of a driven dissipative system (generalized nonautonomous Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process), we compute the time-dependent probability density functions (PDFs) and investigate the evolution of this system in a statistical metric space where the distance between two poi...

An H type metric on the space of planar curves is proposed and equation of the geodesic is derived. A numerical example is given to illustrate the differneces between H and H metrics.

We introduce a Riemannian metric with non positive curvature in the (infinite dimensional) manifold Σ∞ of positive invertible operators of a Hilbert space H, which are scalar perturbations of Hilbert-Schmidt operators. The (minimal) geodesics and the geodesic distance are computed. It is shown that this metric, which is complete, generalizes the well known non positive metric for positive defin...

Abstract The reduced Hamiltonian system on T∗(SU(3)/SU(2)) is derived from a Riemannian geodesic motion on the SU(3) group manifold parameterised by the generalised Euler angles and endowed with a bi-invariant metric. Our calculations show that the metric defined by the derived reduced Hamiltonian flow on the orbit space SU(3)/SU(2) ≃ S5 is not isometric or even geodesically equivalent to the s...

We present a brief but nearly self-contained proof of a formula for the Weil-Petersson Hessian of the geodesic length of a closed curve (either simple or not simple) on a hyperbolic surface. The formula is the sum of the integrals of two naturally defined positive functions over the geodesic, proving convexity of this functional over Teichmuller space (due to Wolpert (1987)). We then estimate t...