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STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF DISORDERED SYSTEMS
A MATHEMATICAL PERSPECTIVE |
| By: |
Anton Bovier, R. Gill, Brian D. Ripley |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521849918 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521849913 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 2006 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics No. 18 |
| Pages: |
328 |
| Description: |
A self-contained graduate-level introduction to the statistical mechanics of disordered systems. |
| Synopsis: |
This self-contained book is a graduate-level introduction for mathematicians and for physicists interested in the mathematical foundations of the field, and can be used as a textbook for a two-semester course on mathematical statistical mechanics. It assumes only basic knowledge of classical physics and, on the mathematics side, a good working knowledge of graduate-level probability theory. The book starts with a concise introduction to statistical mechanics, proceeds to disordered lattice spin systems, and concludes with a presentation of the latest developments in the mathematical understanding of mean-field spin glass models. In particular, progress towards a rigorous understanding of the replica symmetry-breaking solutions of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass models, due to Guerra, Aizenman-Sims-Starr and Talagrand, is reviewed in some detail. |
| Illustrations: |
30 figures |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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