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The Ghirlanda-Guerra Identities

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If the variance of a Gaussian spin-glass Hamiltonian grows like the volume the model fulfills the Ghirlanda-Guerra identities in terms of the normalized Hamiltonian covariance.

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    Pierluigi Contucci

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    Cristian Giardinà

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Contucci, P., Giardinà, C. The Ghirlanda-Guerra Identities. J Stat Phys 126, 917–931 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10955-006-9091-1

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