Timeline for Non-commutative distance formula
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| Jun 7, 2021 at 19:18 | comment | added | Quinn Culver | The Kullback-Leibler divergence is a non-symmetric (this is the term you should use instead of 'non-commutative') function that is intuitively thought of a distance. It's a function on probability distributions, not points, but still might be of interest to and helpful for you as it shows that sometimes there are important reasons to have a non-symmetric 'distance'. | |
| Apr 7, 2021 at 18:36 | comment | added | bogovicj | What other properties would you want your distance to have? Without more information, we're unlikely to help you much. Here's a thought anyway - for directed graphs, a sensible distance between two points is the shortest path along directed edges. This can easily not be commutative depending on the particulars of the graph. | |
| Apr 7, 2021 at 14:33 | answer | added | rapaio | timeline score: 1 | |
| Apr 7, 2021 at 13:35 | review | First posts | |||
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| Apr 7, 2021 at 13:27 | history | asked | Himanshu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |