On Information Links

Abstract

In a joint work with D. Bennequin [6], we suggested that the (negative) minima of the 3-way multivariate mutual information correspond to Borromean links, paving the way for providing probabilistic analogs of linking numbers. This short note generalizes the correspondence of the minima of k multivariate interaction information with k Brunnian links in the binary variable case. Following Jakulin and Bratsko [17], we also note that the negativity of the associated K-L divergence of the joint probability law with its Kirkwood approximation implies their contextuality in the sens of Abramsky [1]. Those negative k-interactions links, that cannot be captured in lower dimensions then k, provide a straightforward definition of collective emergence in complex k-body interacting systems or dataset.