OpenAI reports the Mézard–Parisi formula for diluted spin glasses

For diluted even-arity Ising models in the Panchenko–Talagrand class, finite-system pressure converges to the infimum of the hierarchical cavity trial functional over every finite hierarchy depth and trial law.

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What was already known

Panchenko and Talagrand had an upper bound from hierarchical cavity trials and conjectured equality. The manuscript identifies this equality question for their Poisson even-arity class.

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Importance Major

Proves the Mézard–Parisi variational equality for the stated diluted Ising model class.

Limitations

The result requires the class’s factorization, independence, integrability, and positivity assumptions, even arity at least two, and positive interaction density.

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For diluted even-arity Ising models in the Panchenko–Talagrand class, finite-system pressure converges to the infimum of the hierarchical cavity trial functional over every finite hierarchy depth and trial law.
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Correction and publication history

2026-10-18 · publication

Primary manuscript, attribution, prior-work, and scoped checking review for non-notifying local inclusion.

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