Abstract

We investigate the geometrical structure underlying the notion of inferential scattering, which was formulated by E. T. Jaynes in the 1980s using the language of equilibrium statistical mechanics. We show that inferential scattering can be naturally defined on a dually flat Riemannian manifold equipped with dual coordinate systems, a differential-geometric structure that occupies a central place in Information Geometry. We find that the controlled evolution of the system on the dually flat manifold can be expressed as the horizontal lift of an integrable connection.

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