On the curvature of monotone metrics and a conjecture concerning the Kubo-Mori metric

Linear Algebra and Its Applications

Volumn 315, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 83-112

  Dittmann, Jochen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Curvature; Kubo Mori metric; Monotone Riemannian metrics; Positive matrices; State space

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034371393     PISSN: 00243795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3795(00)00130-0     Document Type: Article

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