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On ff-divergences between Cauchy distributions

Abstract

We prove that the ff-divergences between univariate Cauchy distributions are always symmetric and can be expressed as functions of the chi-squared divergence. We explicit the corresponding functions for the total variation distance, the Kullback-Leibler divergence, the LeCam-Vincze divergence, the squared Hellinger divergence, and the Jensen-Shannon divergence. We then show that this symmetric ff-divergence property does not hold anymore for multivariate Cauchy distributions. Finally, we present several metrizations of ff-divergences between univariate Cauchy distributions.

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