A Short Course on Mean Field Spin Glasses

Progress in Probability

Volumn 62, Issue , 2009, Pages 3-44

  Bovier, Anton ^a   Kurkova, Irina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

82B44; Gaussian processes; interpolation; Mean field models; Parisi solution; random energy model; Sherrington Kirkpatrick model; spin glasses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887065664     PISSN: 10506977     EISSN: 22970428     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7643-9891-0_1     Document Type: Chapter

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