Mean-Field Spin Glass models from the Cavity--ROSt Perspective

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2006-07-27

arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0607060v1

Prospects in Mathematical Physics (Proceedings 'Young Res. Symp.') . J.C. Mourao, J.P. Nunes, R. Picken, and J-C Zambrini (eds

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Based on talks given at `Young Res. Symp.', Lisbon 2003, and `Math. Phys. of Spin Glasses', Cortona 2005

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The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass model has been studied as a source of insight into the statistical mechanics of systems with highly diversified collections of competing low energy states. The goal of this summary is to present some of the ideas which have emerged in the mathematical study of its free energy. In particular, we highlight the perspective of the cavity dynamics, and the related variational principle. These are expressed in terms of Random Overlap Structures (ROSt), which are used to describe the possible states of the reservoir in the cavity step. The Parisi solution is presented as reflecting the ansatz that it suffices to restrict the variation to hierarchal structures which are discussed here in some detail. While the Parisi solution was proven to be correct, through recent works of F. Guerra and M. Talagrand, the reasons for the effectiveness of the Parisi ansatz still remain to be elucidated. We question whether this could be related to the quasi-stationarity of the special subclass of ROSts given by Ruelle's hierarchal `random probability cascades' (also known as GREM).

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