A Multi-Scale Spin-Glass Mean-Field Model

Abstract

In this paper a multi-scale version of the Sherrington and Kirkpatrick model is introduced and studied. The pressure per particle in the thermodynamical limit is proved to obey a variational principle of Parisi type. The result is achieved by means of lower and upper bounds. The lower bound is obtained with a Ruelle cascade using the interpolation technique, while the upper bound exploits factorisation properties of the equilibrium measure and the synchronisation technique

Minor changes, references added. To appear in Communication in Mathematical Physics