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The sample-to-sample fluctuations of the free energy in finite-dimensional Ising spin glasses are calculated, using the replica method, from higher order terms in the replica number $n$. It is shown that the Parisi symmetry breaking scheme…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Aspelmeier , M. A. Moore

This paper studies the dynamic programming principle using the measurable selection method for stochastic control of continuous processes. The novelty of this work is to incorporate intermediate expectation constraints on the canonical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Yuk-Loong Chow , Xiang Yu , Chao Zhou

We present two rigorous results on the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick mean field model for spin glasses, proven by elementary methods, based on properties of fluctuations, with respect to the external quenched noise, of the thermodynamic variables…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-12-13 Francesco Guerra

We present a new time-dependent Density Functional approach to study the relaxational dynamics of an assembly of interacting particles subject to thermal noise. Starting from the Langevin stochastic equations of motion for the velocities of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Pedro Tarazona

A quantum Parisi formula for the transverse field Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) model is proven with an elementary mathematical method. First, a self-overlap corrected quantum model of the transverse field SK model is represented in terms of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 C. Itoi , K. Fujiwara , Y. Sakamoto

In this work we introduce a viscosity-based notion of solution for general approximation schemes associated with partial differential equations, such as dynamic programming principles~(DPPs). A key feature of our approach is that it…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Félix del Teso , Julio D. Rossi , Jorge Ruiz-Cases

We discuss a spin glass reminiscent of the Random Energy Model, which allows in particular to recast the Parisi minimization into a more classical Gibbs variational principle, thereby shedding some light on the physical meaning of the order…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Erwin Bolthausen , Nicola Kistler

In the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick mean field model for spin glasses, we show that the quenched average of the free energy can be expressed through a couple of functional order parameters, in a form very similar to the one found in the frame of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-12-13 Francesco Guerra

Let $\alpha=1/2$, $\theta>-1/2$, and $\nu_0$ be a probability measure on a type space $S$. In this paper, we investigate the stochastic dynamic model for the two-parameter Dirichlet process $\Pi_{\alpha,\theta,\nu_0}$. If $S=\mathbb{N}$, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-06-21 Shui Feng , Wei Sun

Aim of this work is not trying to explore a macroscopic behavior of some recent model in statistical mechanics but showing how some recent techniques developed within the framework of spin glasses do work on simpler model, focusing on the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Adriano Barra

The probability distribution (PD) of spin configurations in kinetic Ising models has been cast in the form of the canonical Boltzmann PD with a time-dependent effective Hamiltonian (EH). It has been argued that in systems with extensive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-10 V. I. Tokar

We provide a dynamic programming principle for stochastic optimal control problems with expectation constraints. A weak formulation, using test functions and a probabilistic relaxation of the constraint, avoids restrictions related to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-12-21 Bruno Bouchard , Marcel Nutz

Motivated by the modeling of three-dimensional fluid turbulence, we define and study a class of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) that are randomly stirred by a spatially smooth and uncorrelated in time forcing term. To…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Gabriel B. Apolinário , Laurent Chevillard , Jean-Christophe Mourrat

This is a short review about recent methods and results, mostly for mean field spin glasses, based on interpolation and comparison schemes. In particular, the Parisi spontaneous replica symmetry breaking phenomenon is described in the frame…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Guerra

We construct an abstract framework in which the dynamic programming principle (DPP) can be readily proven. It encompasses a broad range of common stochastic control problems in the weak formulation, and deals with problems in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Roman Fayvisovich , Gordan Zitkovic

In this note we summarize the connections between equilibrium and slow out of equilibrium dynamics in finite dimensional glasses, such as we understand them today. If we assume that a finite-dimensional system is stable with respect to a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-07-13 Silvio Franz , Jorge Kurchan

We report large effects of Parisi replica permutation symmetry breaking (RPSB) on elementary excitations of fermionic systems with frustrated magnetic interactions. The electronic density of states is obtained exactly in the zero…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Oppermann , B. Rosenow

We obtain the analogue of the Crisanti-Sommers variational formula for spherical spin glasses with vector spins. This formula is derived from the discrete Parisi variational formula for the limit of the free energy of constrained copies of…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Justin Ko

The recently developed Particle-based Variational Inference (ParVI) methods drive the empirical distribution of a set of \emph{fixed-weight} particles towards a given target distribution $\pi$ by iteratively updating particles' positions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Chao Zhang , Zhijian Li , Hui Qian , Xin Du

We study the optimal control of general stochastic McKean-Vlasov equation. Such problem is motivated originally from the asymptotic formulation of cooperative equilibrium for a large population of particles (players) in mean-field…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Huyên Pham , Xiaoli Wei