{ "id": "1510.03414", "version": "v1", "published": "2015-10-12T19:57:51.000Z", "updated": "2015-10-12T19:57:51.000Z", "title": "The Legendre structure of the Parisi formula", "authors": [ "Antonio Auffinger", "Wei-Kuo Chen" ], "comment": "20 pages", "categories": [ "math.PR", "math-ph", "math.MP" ], "abstract": "We show that the Parisi formula of the mixed $p$-spin model is a concave function of the squared inverse temperature. This allows us to derive a new expression for the Parisi formula that involves the inverse temperature and the functional order parameter as Legendre conjugate variables.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2015-10-12T19:57:51.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "60K35", "82B44" ], "keywords": [ "parisi formula", "legendre structure", "legendre conjugate variables", "functional order parameter", "concave function" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 20, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2015arXiv151003414A" } } }