Geometry of the Gibbs measure for the discrete 2D Gaussian free field with scale-dependent variance

Frédéric Ouimet

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Geometry of the Gibbs measure for the discrete 2D Gaussian free field with scale-dependent variance

Frédéric Ouimet

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We continue our study of the scale-inhomogeneous Gaussian free field introduced in Arguin and Ouimet (2016). Firstly, we compute the limiting free energy on V_N and adapt a technique of Bovier and Kurkova (2004b) to determine the limiting two-overlap distribution. The adaptation was already successfully applied in the simpler case of Arguin and Zindy (2015), where the limiting free energy was computed for the field with two levels (in the center of V_N) and the limiting two-overlap distribution was determined in the homogeneous case. Our results agree with the analogous quantities for the Generalized Random Energy Model (GREM); see Capocaccia et al. (1987) and Bovier and Kurkova (2004a), respectively. Secondly, we show that the extended Ghirlanda-Guerra identities hold exactly in the limit. As a corollary, the limiting array of overlaps is ultrametric and the limiting Gibbs measure has the same law as a Ruelle probability cascade.

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Frédéric Ouimet. 2017-06-04. Geometry of the Gibbs measure for the discrete 2D Gaussian free field with scale-dependent variance. https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.01079

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