On the second moment method and RS phase of multi-species spherical spin glasses

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Abstract

Excluding some special cases, computing the critical inverse-temperature βc of a mixed p-spin spin glass model is a difficult task. The only known method to calculate its value for a general model requires the full power of the Parisi formula. On the other hand, an easy application of the second moment method to the partition function yields an explicit lower bound βm ≤ βc to the critical inverse-temperature. Interestingly, in the important case of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model βm = βc. In this work we consider the multi-species spherical mixed p-spin models without external field, and characterize by a simple condition the models for which the second moment method works in the whole replica symmetric phase, namely, models such that βm = βc. In particular, for those models we obtain the value of βc.

Original languageEnglish
Article number50
JournalElectronic Journal of Probability
Volume28
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

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