regular seminar Nicola Kistler (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
at: 15:00 - 16:00 KCL, Strand room: Strand Building S4.29 abstract: | The replica method, together with Parisi symmetry breaking mechanism, is a powerful tool which allows to compute the limiting free energy of virtually any mean field disordered system. Unfortunately, the tool is dramatically flawed from a mathematical point of view. I will discuss a truly elementary procedure which allows to rigorously implement two (out of three) steps of the procedure, and which allows to represent the free energy of virtually any model from statistical mechanics as a Gaussian mixture model. I will then conclude with some remarks on the ensuing Babylonian formulas and their relation with :
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