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Dual Affine Connections and Dually Flat Manifold

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We have considered one affine connection, namely the Levi–Civita connection, in a Riemannian manifold M. However, we can establish a new edifice of differential geometry, by treating a pair of affine connections which are dually coupled with respect to the Riemannian metric.

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Amari, Si. (2016). Dual Affine Connections and Dually Flat Manifold. In: Information Geometry and Its Applications. Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol 194. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55978-8_6

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