Canonical divergence for flat $\alpha$-connections: Classical and Quantum

Abstract

A recent canonical divergence, which is introduced on a smooth manifold $\mathrm{M}$ endowed with a general dualistic structure $(\mathrm{g},\nabla ,{\nabla }^{\ast })$, is considered for flat $\alpha$-connections. In the classical setting, we compute such a canonical divergence on the manifold of positive measures and prove that it coincides with the classical $\alpha$-divergence. In the quantum framework, the recent canonical divergence is evaluated for the quantum $\alpha$-connections on the manifold of all positive definite Hermitian operators. Also in this case we obtain that the recent canonical divergence is the quantum $\alpha$-divergence.

18 pages