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Mean-field spin glasses: beyond Parisi's formula?

VIENNA PROBABILITY SEMINAR

Date
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 16:30 - 17:15
Speaker
Jean-Christophe Mourrat (New York University)
Location
Online via Zoom
Series
Seminar/Talk
Tags
Mathematics and CS Seminar, mathematical_seminar_ics
Host
M. Beiglböck, N. Berestycki, L. Erdös, J. Maas, F. Toninelli
Contact

Spin glasses are models of statistical mechanics encoding disordered interactions between many simple units. One of the fundamental quantities of interest is the free energy of the model, in the limit when the number of units tends to infinity. For a restricted class of models, this limit was predicted by Parisi, and later rigorously proved by Guerra and Talagrand. I will first show how to rephrase this result using an infinite-dimensional Hamilton-Jacobi equation. I will then present partial results suggesting that this new point of view may allow to understand limit free energies for a larger class of models, focusing in particular on the case in which the units are organized over two layers, and only interact across layers.


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