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 species, the Parisi formula is known to be valid, and expresses the limit free energy as a supremum over monotone probability measures on . We show here that one can transform this representation into a supremum over all probability measures on 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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66 pages