Manifolds of Differentiable Densities

We develop a family of infinite-dimensional (non-parametric) manifolds of probability measures. The latter are defined on underlying Banach spaces, and have densities of class with respect to appropriate reference measures. The case , in which the manifolds are modelled on Fr\'{e}chet spaces, is included. The manifolds admit the Fisher-Rao metric and, unusually for the non-parametric setting, Amari's -covariant derivatives for all . By construction, they are -embedded submanifolds of particular manifolds of finite measures. The statistical manifolds are dually () flat, and admit mixture and exponential representations as charts. Their curvatures with respect to the -covariant derivatives are derived. The likelihood function associated with a finite sample is a continuous function on each of the manifolds, and the -divergences are of class .
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