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Title:
Statistical mechanics of disordered systems : a mathematical perspective
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Cambridge series in statistical and probabilistic mathematics ; 18
Publication Information:
Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 2006
Physical Description:
xiv, 312 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
ISBN:
9781107405332
Abstract:
This self-contained book is a graduate-level introduction for mathematicians and for physicists interested in the mathematical foundations of the field, and can be used as a textbook for a two-semester course on mathematical statistical mechanics. It assumes only basic knowledge of classical physics and, on the mathematics side, a good working knowledge of graduate-level probability theory. The book starts with a concise introduction to statistical mechanics, proceeds to disordered lattice spin systems, and concludes with a presentation of the latest developments in the mathematical understanding of mean-field spin glass models. In particular, progress towards a rigorous understanding of the replica symmetry-breaking solutions of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass models, due to Guerra, Aizenman-Sims-Starr and Talagrand, is reviewed in some detail.

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