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On the REM approximation of TAP free energies

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2023-07-19 v1 Probability

Abstract

The free energy of TAP-solutions for the SK-model of mean field spin glasses can be expressed as a nonlinear functional of local terms: we exploit this feature in order to contrive abstract REM-like models which we then solve by a classical large deviations treatment. This allows to identify the origin of the physically unsettling quadratic (in the inverse of temperature) correction to the Parisi free energy for the SK-model, and formalizes the true\textit{true} cavity dynamics which acts on TAP-space, i.e. on the space of TAP-solutions. From a non-spin glass point of view, this work is the first in a series of refinements which addresses the stability of hierarchical structures in models of evolving populations.

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@article{arxiv.2212.11718,
  title  = {On the REM approximation of TAP free energies},
  author = {Nicola Kistler and Marius Alexander Schmidt and Giulia Sebastiani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.11718},
  year   = {2023}
}