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Geodesic curves in Gaussian random field manifolds
Alexandre L. M. Levada
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Random fields are mathematical structures used to model the spatial interaction of random variables along time, with applications ranging from statistical physics and thermodynamics to system's biology and the simulation of complex systems. Despite being studied since the 19th century, little is known about how the dynamics of random fields are related to the geometric properties of their parametric spaces. For example, how can we quantify the similarity between two random fields operating in different regimes using an intrinsic measure? In this paper, we propose a numerical method for the computation of geodesic distances in Gaussian random field manifolds. First, we derive the metric tensor of the underlying parametric space (the 3 x 3 first-order Fisher information matrix), then we derive the 27 Christoffel symbols required in the definition of the system of non-linear differential equations whose solution is a geodesic curve starting at the initial conditions. The fourth-order Runge-Kutta method is applied to numerically solve the non-linear system through an iterative approach. The obtained results show that the proposed method can estimate the geodesic distances for several different initial conditions. Besides, the results reveal an interesting pattern: in several cases, the geodesic curve obtained by reversing the system of differential equations in time does not match the original curve, suggesting the existence of irreversible geometric deformations in the trajectory of a moving reference traveling along a geodesic curve.
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