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2022 Free energy in multi-species mixed p-spin spherical models
Erik Bates, Youngtak Sohn
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Electron. J. Probab. 27: 1-75 (2022). DOI: 10.1214/22-EJP780

Abstract

We prove a Parisi formula for the limiting free energy of multi-species spherical spin glasses with mixed p-spin interactions. The upper bound involves a Guerra-style interpolation and requires a convexity assumption on the model’s covariance function. Meanwhile, the lower bound adapts the cavity method of Chen so that it can be combined with the synchronization technique of Panchenko; this part requires no convexity assumption. In order to guarantee that the resulting Parisi formula has a minimizer, we formalize the pairing of synchronization maps with overlap measures so that the constraint set is a compact metric space. This space is not related to the model’s spherical structure and can be carried over to other multi-species settings.

Funding Statement

E.B. was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-1902734. Y.S. was partially supported by NSF grant DMS-1954337.

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Amir Dembo for valuable feedback and suggestions, and to Pax Kivimae for the detection of a computational error in a previous draft. We thank the referee for several corrections resulting from their careful reading.

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Erik Bates. Youngtak Sohn. "Free energy in multi-species mixed p-spin spherical models." Electron. J. Probab. 27 1 - 75, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1214/22-EJP780

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Received: 2 October 2021; Accepted: 11 April 2022; Published: 2022
First available in Project Euclid: 27 April 2022

MathSciNet: MR4416676
zbMATH: 1492.60264
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/22-EJP780

Subjects:
Primary: 60K35
Secondary: 60G15 , 82B44 , 82D30

Keywords: Aizenman–Sims–Starr scheme , Cavity method , Free energy , Guerra interpolation , multi-species spin glass , Parisi formula , spherical spin glass , synchronization

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