Flat connections and Wigner-Yanase-Dyson metrics

Abstract

On the manifold of positive definite matrices, we investigate the existence of pairs of flat affine connections, dual with respect to a given monotone metric. The connections are defined either using the $\alpha$-embeddings and finding the duals with respect to the metric, or by means of contrast functionals. We show that in both cases, the existence of such a pair of connections is possible if and only if the metric is given by the Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew information.

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