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Duality in finite-dimensional spin glasses

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2007-06-13 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We present an analysis leading to a conjecture on the exact location of the multicritical point in the phase diagram of spin glasses in finite dimensions. The conjecture, in satisfactory agreement with a number of numerical results, was previously derived using an ansatz emerging from duality and the replica method. In the present paper we carefully examine the ansatz and reduce it to a hypothesis on analyticity of a function appearing in the duality relation. Thus the problem is now clearer than before from a mathematical point of view: The ansatz, somewhat arbitrarily introduced previously, has now been shown to be closely related to the analyticity of a well-defined function.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0602453,
  title  = {Duality in finite-dimensional spin glasses},
  author = {Hidetoshi Nishimori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0602453},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

12 pages, 3 figures; A reference added; to appear in J. Stat. Phys

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