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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Entropic Dynamics on Gibbs Statistical Manifolds.

Pedro Pessoa, Felipe Xavier Costa, Ariel Caticha

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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Pedro PessoaDepartment of Physics, University at Albany (SUNY), Albany, NY 12222, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6258-5679
Felipe Xavier CostaDepartment of Physics, University at Albany (SUNY), Albany, NY 12222, USA.
Ariel CatichaDepartment of Physics, University at Albany (SUNY), Albany, NY 12222, USA.

Funding

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico GDE 249934/2013-2
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Entropic dynamics is a framework in which the laws of dynamics are derived as an application of entropic methods of inference. Its successes include the derivation of quantum mechanics and quantum field theory from probabilistic principles. Here, we develop the entropic dynamics of a system, the state of which is described by a probability distribution. Thus, the dynamics unfolds on a statistical manifold that is automatically endowed by a metric structure provided by information geometry. The curvature of the manifold has a significant influence. We focus our dynamics on the statistical manifold of Gibbs distributions (also known as canonical distributions or the exponential family). The model includes an "entropic" notion of time that is tailored to the system under study; the system is its own clock. As one might expect that entropic time is intrinsically directional; there is a natural arrow of time that is led by entropic considerations. As illustrative examples, we discuss dynamics on a space of Gaussians and the discrete three-state system.

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canonical distributionsentropic dynamicsexponential familyinformation geometrymaximum entropy

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PMID33919107
PMCPMC8143128

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