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Statistical Manifolds and F-Manifold Structure in Exponential Families

Max Planck Science via YouTube

Overview

Explore an overview of recent findings in a 17-minute talk from Max Planck Science. Discover how statistical manifolds, central to information geometry and related to exponential families, possess an F-manifold structure. Learn about this algebraic structure's connection to Dubrovin's Frobenius manifolds and its role in axiomatizing Topological Field Theory. Delve into the unexpected link between statistical manifolds and the tetralogy of Frobenius manifolds, encompassing quantum cohomology, Saito manifolds, and solutions to Maurer-Cartan equations. Uncover the rich algebraic and geometrical properties of these statistical manifolds and their deep connections to various classes of Frobenius manifolds. Gain insight into the recently proven existence of statistical Gromov-Witten invariants for statistical manifolds.

Syllabus

statistical manifolds (related to exponential families) have an F-manifold structure

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Max Planck Science

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