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Steve Zelditch - Critical Points of Random Super-potentials and Spin Glasses

Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES)
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In the early 2000s, one often heard that the vacuum counting problem in string theory was like a spin glass problem. My talk will review results of Douglas, Shiffman, and myself on probabilistic methods for counting vacua of certain string theories. I then review some more recent results by various mathematicians on critical points of p-spin Hamiltonians. These results do not seem to be well known to physicists but may have analogs for string theory vacua. Steve Zelditch (Northwestern University) ...more
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Steve Zelditch - Critical Points of Random Super-potentials and Spin Glasses
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2022May 14
In the early 2000s, one often heard that the vacuum counting problem in string theory was like a spin glass problem. My talk will review results of Douglas, Shiffman, and myself on probabilistic methods for counting vacua of certain string theories. I then review some more recent results by various mathematicians on critical points of p-spin Hamiltonians. These results do not seem to be well known to physicists but may have analogs for string theory vacua. Steve Zelditch (Northwestern University)

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Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES)

71.6K subscribers