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The convex structure of the Parisi formula for multi-species spin glasses

Probability 2025-08-11 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We study the free energy of mean-field multi-species spin glasses with convex covariance function. For such models with DD species, the Parisi formula is known to be valid, and expresses the limit free energy as a supremum over monotone probability measures on R+D\mathbb{R}_+^D. We show here that one can transform this representation into a supremum over all probability measures on R+D\mathbb{R}_+^D of a concave functional. We then deduce that the Parisi formula admits a unique maximizer. Using convex-duality arguments, we also obtain a new representation of the free energy as an infimum over martingales in a Wiener space.

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@article{arxiv.2508.06397,
  title  = {The convex structure of the Parisi formula for multi-species spin glasses},
  author = {Hong-Bin Chen and Victor Issa and Jean-Christophe Mourrat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.06397},
  year   = {2025}
}

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