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The Parisi Formula for the Edwards–Anderson Model in the High-Dimensional Limit

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Abstract

We study the Edwards–Anderson spin glass on the torus (Z/LZ)d(\mathbb{Z}/L\mathbb{Z})^d, with independent Gaussian couplings of variance 1/(2d)1/(2d) between nearest neighbors. We prove that, as d→∞d\to\infty, its free energy converges to that of the Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model, given by the Parisi formula, at every temperature and in every uniform external field, uniformly in the side length LL. The same holds on the hypercube {0,1}d\{0,1\}^d, and the ground-state energies converge to the Sherrington–Kirkpatrick ground-state energy.

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