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Jacob Burbea

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Publications

25

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Active since

1974

Affiliations

University of Pittsburgh(Current)

Jacob Burbea is an author at University of Pittsburgh specializing in engineering, functional analysis, and probability theory.

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EngineeringFunctional AnalysisEntropyProbabilityStatisticsInformationVortex FlowsFluid DynamicsStatistical InferencePhysics

Publications per year

1974–2008

25

Publications

25

On the convexity of some divergence measures based on entropy functions

Jacob Burbea, C. Radhakrishna Rao · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 1982 · 419 citations

Measure Theory, Dirichlet Form, Engineering +12

Entropy differential metric, distance and divergence measures in probability spaces: A unified approach

Jacob Burbea, C. Radhakrishna Rao · Journal of Multivariate Analysis · 1982 · 278 citations

Measure Theory, Engineering, Information Theory +8

Motions of vortex patches

Jacob Burbea · Letters in Mathematical Physics · 1982 · 117 citations

Vortex Dynamics, Vortex Patches, Engineering +6

Holomorphic Sobolev spaces on the ball

Frank Beatrous, Jacob Burbea · 1989 · 90 citations

Quasiconformal Mapping, Holomorphic Sobolev Spaces, Harmonic Space +1

Differential metrics in probability spaces

Jacob Burbea, C. Radhakrishna Rao · 1984 · 75 citations

Measure Theory, Engineering, Information Theory +13

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