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Mean Field Models for Spin Glasses: Volume II: Advanced Replica-Symmetry and Low Temperature

By Michel Talagrand (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2011
ISBN
3642222528, 9783642222528
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-22253-5
ISSN
0071-1136
Google Books ID
vb6Xvt9jcO8C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4252583 bytes)
Series
Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge / A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics 55
Edition
2
Pages
632\642
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-14 18:00:00
Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes;Mathem

Description

This is a new, completely revised, updated and enlarged edition of the author's Ergebnisse vol. 46: "Spin Glasses: A Challenge for Mathematicians" in two volumes (this is the 2nd volume). In the eighties, a group of theoretical physicists introduced several models for certain disordered systems, called "spin glasses". These models are simple and rather canonical random structures, of considerable interest for several branches of science (statistical physics, neural networks and computer science). The physicists studied them by non-rigorous methods and predicted spectacular behaviors. This book introduces in a rigorous manner this exciting new area to the mathematically minded reader. It requires no knowledge whatsoever of any physics. The present Volume II contains a considerable amount of new material, in particular all the fundamental low-temperature results obtained after the publication of the first edition.

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