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Spin Glasses: A Challenge for Mathematicians

By Michel Talagrand

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2010
ISBN
9783642055683, 3642055680
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
7 MB (7505161 bytes)
Series
Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics
Edition
1st Edition.
Pages
595\595
Library
mexmat
Time added
2014-10-05 02:30:00

Description

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, that physicists studied by non-rigorous methods. They predicted spectacular behaviors, previously unknown in probability theory. They believe these behaviors occur in many models of considerable interest for several branches of science (statistical physics, neural networks and computer science).This book introduces in a rigorous manner this exciting new area to the mathematically minded reader. It requires no knowledge whatsoever of any physics, and contains proofs in complete detail of much of what is rigorously known on spin glasses at the time of writing.

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