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How to define complexity? How to classify the configurations of a complex system? Which are the main features of such a classification? These and similar problems are briefly discussed in this talk.
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G. Parisi Physica Scripta, 35, 123 (1987).
M. Mezard, G. Parisi, N. Sourlas, G. Toulouse and M. Virasoro, Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 1156 (1984); J. Physique 45, 843 (1984), M. Mezard, G. Parisi, M. Virasoro, Europhys. Lett, 1, 56, (1986).
A theoretical review of spin glasses and related subjects can be found in G. Parisi, in “Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics”, ed. by J. B. Zuber and R. Stora, North Holland (1984). and in M. Mezard, G. Parisi, M. Virasoro, “Spin Glass Theory and beyond”, Word Scientific, Singapore (1987).
See for example D. Ruelle, “Statistical Mechanics”, Benjamin (1969).
The mean field approach to these problems is described in M. Mezard and G. Parisi, J. Phys. Lett. 46, L771 (1985).
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Parisi, G. (1988). On Complexity. In: Peliti, L., Vulpiani, A. (eds) Measures of Complexity. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 314. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-50316-1_2
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