Department Seminar by Christian Brennecke

Tuesday, April 27, 2021 11:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Please Note: This seminar will be given online.

Probability seminar series

Christian Brennecke
Harvard University

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On the TAP equations for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model


In this talk, I will review the Thouless-Anderson-Palmer (TAP) equations for the classical Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass and present a dynamical derivation, valid at sufficiently high temperature. In our derivation, the TAP equations follow as a simple consequence of the decay of the two point correlation functions. The methods can also be used to establish decay of higher order correlation functions. We illustrate this by proving a suitable decay bound on the three point functions which implies an analogue of the TAP equations for the two point functions. The talk is based on joint work with A. Adhikari, P. von Soosten and H.T. Yau.