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A recently introduced canonical divergence \(\mathcal {D}\) for a dual structure \((\mathrm{g},\nabla ,\nabla ^*)\) on a smooth manifold \(\mathrm {M}\) is discussed in connection to other divergence functions. Finally, general properties of \(\mathcal {D}\) are outlined and critically discussed.
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Felice, D., Ay, N. (2019). Divergence Functions in Information Geometry. In: Nielsen, F., Barbaresco, F. (eds) Geometric Science of Information. GSI 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11712. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26980-7_45
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