Heat kernel asymptotics on the lamplighter group.
It is well established that resource variability generated by spatial patchiness and turbulence is an important influence on the growth and recruitment of planktonic fish larvae. Empirical data show fractal-like prey distributions, and simulations indicate that scale-invariant foraging strategies may be optimal. Here we show how larval growth and recruitment in a turbulent environment can be formulated as a hitting time problem for a jump-diffusion process. We present two theoretical results. Firstly,...
We consider the equation where is a given increasing sequence of positive numbers, and is chosen at random so that are totally independent random variables uniformly distributed on interval . We determine the probability of the event that all solutions of the equation tend to zero as .
In this note, we prove an asymptotic expansion and a central limit theorem for the multiple overlap R1, ..., s of the SK model, defined for given N, s ≥ 1 by R1, ..., s = N-1Σi≤N σ1i ... σsi. These results are obtained by a careful analysis of the terms appearing in the cavity derivation formula, as well as some graph induction procedures. Our method could hopefully be applied to other spin glasses models.
The Parisi formula is an expression for the limiting free energy of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass model, which had first been derived by Parisi using a non-rigorous replica method together with an hierarchical ansatz for the solution of the variational problem. It had become quickly clear that behind the solution, if correct, lies an interesting mathematical structure. The formula has recently been proved by Michel Talagrand based partly on earlier ideas and results by Francesco Guerra....
We establish circumstances under which the dispersion of passive contaminants in a forced flow can be consistently interpreted as a Markovian diffusion process.