Fluctuations of the free energy of the spherical Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model with ferromagnetic interaction (Q2364601)

The pure 2-spin spherical Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SSK) model is defined by the Hamiltonian \[ H^{\text{SSK}}_N(\sigma)={1\over \sqrt{N}}\sum_{i,j=1}^NA_{ij}\sigma_i\sigma_j, \] where \(A_{ij}\) are independent random variables with mean 0, variance 1, \(A_{ii}=0\), and \(\sigma=(\sigma_1, \sigma_2, \dots,\sigma_N)\in S_{N-1}=\{\sigma\in \mathbb R^{N}: \|\sigma\|^2=N\}\). The Curie-Weiss (CW) Hamiltonian is \[ H^{\text{CW}}_N(\sigma)={J\over N}\sum_{i,j=1}^N\sigma_i\sigma_j, \;\;J\in \mathbb R. \] The authors are interested in the spin system with Hamiltonian \[ H_N(\sigma)= H^{\text{SSK}}_N(\sigma)+H^{\text{CW}}_N(\sigma). \] For \(\beta>0\) the partition function is defined as \[ Z_N(\beta)=\int_{S_{N-1}}\exp(\beta H_N(\sigma))d\omega_N(\sigma), \] where \(d\omega_N\) is the normalized uniform measure on the sphere \(S_{N-1}\). The free energy is \[ F_N(\beta)={1\over N}\log Z_N. \] The main result of the paper is a limit theorem for the free energy (as \(N\to \infty\)) at positive temperature \(\beta^{-1}>0\) with \(J>0\).