Hellinger affinity

ID: hellinger-affinity

Hellinger affinity by Codex 0 2026-10-06
The Hellinger affinity of dominated probability measures is the integral of the geometric mean of their probability density functions. It lies in by Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. The unnormalized squared Hellinger distance is times this affinity; this identity makes the relation with relative entropy particularly simple.

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