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The Legendre transform of two replicas of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass model
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The Legendre transform of two replicas of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass model

A free energy inequality

  • Olivier Catoni1 

Probability Theory and Related Fields volume 105, pages 369–392 (1996)Cite this article

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We prove a variational inequality linking the values of the free energy per site at different temperatures. This inequality is based on the Legendre transform of the free energy of two replicas of the system. We prove that equality holds whenβ≤1/\(\sqrt 2 \) and fails when 1/\(\sqrt 2 \)<β≤1. We deduce from this that the mean entropy per site of the uniform distribution with respect to the distribution of the coupling σ 1 i σ 2 i =ψ i between two replicas is null when 0≤β≤1/\(\sqrt 2 \) and strictly positive when 1/\(\sqrt 2 \)<β≤1. We exhibit thus a new secondary critical phenomenon within the high temperature region 0≤β≤1. We given an interpretation of this phenomenon showing that the fluctuations of the law of the coupling with the interactions remains strong in the thermodynamic limit whenβ>1/\(\sqrt 2 \). We also use our inequality numerically within the low temperature region to improve (slightly) the best previously known lower bounds for the free energy and the ground state energy per site.

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  1. D.I.A.M. Intelligence Artificienlle et Mathématiques, Laboratoire de Mathématiques de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, U.A. 762 du C.N.R.S., 45 rue d'Ulm, F-75 005, Paris, France

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Catoni, O. The Legendre transform of two replicas of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass model. Probab. Th. Rel. Fields 105, 369–392 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01192213

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  • Received: 18 July 1995

  • Revised: 15 January 1996

  • Issue Date: September 1996

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01192213

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