A note on Talagrand's positivity principle

Dmitriy Panchenko (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Abstract


Talagrand's positivity principle states that one can slightly perturb a Hamiltonian in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model in such a way that the overlap of two configurations under the perturbed Gibbs' measure will become typically nonnegative. In this note we observe that abstracting from the setting of the SK model only improves the result and does not require any modifications in Talagrand's argument. In this version, for example, positivity principle immediately applies to the setting of replica symmetry breaking interpolation. Also, abstracting from the SK model improves the conditions in the Ghirlanda-Guerra identities and as a consequence results in a perturbation of smaller order necessary to ensure positivity of the overlap.

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Pages: 401-410

Publication Date: October 21, 2007

DOI: 10.1214/ECP.v12-1326

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