Spin Glasses: Statics and Dynamics Summer School, Paris 2007 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Monvel, Anne Boutet de (Editor), Bovier, Anton (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2009.
• Series: Progress in Probability ; 62
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Probabilities.; Physics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.

Over the last decade, spin glass theory has turned from a fascinating part of t- oretical physics to a ?ourishing and rapidly growing subject of probability theory as well. These developments have been triggered to a large part by the mathem- ical understanding gained on the fascinating and previous...

Table of Contents:

• Mean Field
• A Short Course on Mean Field Spin Glasses
• REM Universality for Random Hamiltonians
• Another View on Aging in the REM
• Spin Glass Identities and the Nishimori Line
• Self-averaging Identities for Random Spin Systems
• Chaos in Mean-field Spin-glass Models
• A non Gaussian Limit Law for the Covariances of Spins in a SK Model with an External Field
• A Limit Theorem for Mean Magnetisation in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model with an External Field
• Non-mean Field
• A Percolation-theoretic Approach to Spin Glass Phase Transitions
• Fluctuations in Finite-dimensional Spin-glass Dynamics
• Disordered Pinning Models
• Renewal Sequences, Disordered Potentials, and Pinning Phenomena
• A Smoothing Inequality for Hierarchical Pinning Models.