An almost sure large deviation principle for the Hopfield model

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Abstract: We prove a large deviation principle for the finite dimensional marginals of the Gibbs distribution of the macroscopic `overlap'-parameters in the Hopfield model in the case where the number of random patterns, M, as a function of the system size N satisfies limsupM(N)/N=0. In this case the rate function (or free energy as a function of the overlap parameters) is independent of the disorder for almost all realization of the patterns and given by an explicit variational formula.


This work continues a series of papers written by the authors on the Hopfield model of statistical mechanics of disordered spin systems [see e.g. the authors and \textit{P. Picco}, Probab. Theory Relat. Fields 101, No. 4, 511-546 (1995; Zbl 0826.60090)]. In the present paper the case when the number \(M\) of random ``patterns, as a function of the system size \(N\), satisfies condition \(\limsup_{N\to\infty} M(N)N^{-1}=0\), is considered. The large deviations principle for the finite-dimensional marginals of the Gibbs distribution of the overlap parameters is proved.











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