Michel Talagrand

Mean Field Models for Spin Glasses

Volume I: Basic Examples

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a new, completely revised, updated and enlarged edition of the author's Ergebnisse vol. 46: "Spin Glasses: A Challenge for Mathematicians". This new edition will appear in two volumes, the present first volume presents the basic results and methods, the second volume is expected to appear in 2011.
In the eighties, a group of theoretical physicists introduced several models for certain disordered systems, called "spin glasses". These models are simple and rather canonical random structures, of considerable interest for several branches of science (statistical physics, neural networks and computer science).
The physicists studied them by non-rigorous methods and predicted spectacular behaviors.
This book introduces in a rigorous manner this exciting new area to the mathematically minded reader. It requires no knowledge whatsoever of any physics. The first volume of this new and completely rewritten edition presents six fundamental models and the basic techniques to study them.

Produktdetails

• Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete. 3. Folge / A Series of Modern Surveys in Mathematics
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 80021025, 978-3-642-15201-6
• 2nd, rev. and enlarged ed. 2011
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 928g
• ISBN-13: 9783642152016
• ISBN-10: 3642152015
• Artikelnr.: 30881190

Autorenporträt

M. Talagrand is Research Director in CNRS, and Member of the French Academy of Sciences since 2004.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- 1. The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Model.- 2. The Perceptron Model.- 3. The Shcherbina and Tirozzi Model.- 4. The Hopfield Model.- 5. The V-statistics Model.- 6. The Diluted SK Model and the K-Sat Problem.- 7. An Assignment Problem.- A. Appendix: Elements of Probability Theory.- References.- Index.- Glossary.

Rezensionen

From the reviews of the second edition: "This is the second volume of the treatise 'Mean fields models for spin glasses' and it is truly the continuation of the preceding one. ... the book is a book of mathematics expanded around Hamiltonian. The main considered topics are the Gardner formula, the Hopfield model, the SK model, the Parisi formula and the p-spin interaction model. ... This is truly a nice book of condensed mathematics." (Guy Jumarie, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1232, 2012)