Ghirlanda, Stefano; Guerra, Francesco General properties of overlap probability distributions in disordered spin systems. Towards Parisi ultrametricity. (English) Zbl 0953.82037 J. Phys. A, Math. Gen. 31, No. 46, 9149-9155 (1998). Summary: For a very general class of probability distributions in disordered Ising spin systems, in the thermodynamical limit, we prove the following property for overlaps among real replicas. Consider the overlaps among \(s\) replicas. Add one replica \(s+1\). Then, the overlap \(q_{a,s+1}\) between one of the first \(s\) replicas, let us say \(a\), and the added \(s+1\) is either independent of the former ones, or it is identical to one of the overlaps \(q_{ab}\), with \(b\) running among the first \(s\) replicas, excluding \(a\). Each of these cases has equal probability \(1/s\). Cited in 5 ReviewsCited in 92 Documents MSC: 82B44 Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics Keywords:probability distributions; disordered Ising spin systems; thermodynamical limit; real replicas PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{S. Ghirlanda} and \textit{F. Guerra}, J. Phys. A, Math. Gen. 31, No. 46, 9149--9155 (1998; Zbl 0953.82037) Full Text: DOI arXiv