The extremal process of critical points of the pure \(p\)-spin spherical spin Glass model (Q2363653)

The Hamiltonian of the spherical pure \(p\)-spin spin glass model is given by \[ H_N(\boldsymbol{\sigma}) = \frac{1}{N^{(p-1)/2}}\sum_{i_1, \dots, i_p = 1}^{N}J_{i_1, \dots, i_p}\sigma_{i_1}\cdots \sigma_{i_p}, \boldsymbol{\sigma} \in \mathcal{S}^{N-1}(\sqrt{N}), \] where \(\boldsymbol{\sigma} = (\sigma_1, \dots, \sigma_N),\) \(\mathcal{S}^{N-1}(\sqrt{N}) \Delta=\{\boldsymbol{\sigma}\in \mathcal{R}^N: \| \boldsymbol{\sigma}\|_2 = \sqrt{N},\}\) and \(J_{i_1, \dots, i_p}\) are i.i.d. standard normal variables. Assuming that \(p \geq 3,\) the goal of the article is to investigate the bahaviour of the ground-state, i.e., global minimum of \(H_N,\) and the collection of critical values in its vicinity on a finer scale, by studying the extremal point process of critical points, which the authors define. The main result is that, for \(p \geq 3,\) the extremal process of critical points converges in distribution to a Poisson point process of exponential intensity. As a consequence of this result, it is shown that the centered ground-state converges in distribution, as \(N \rightarrow \infty,\) to the negative of a Gumbel variable.