Talagrand's critical Sherrington-Kirkpatrick overlap conjecture
Talagrand's Conjecture 11.7.5 is resolved affirmatively for the critical Ising Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model: converges to a positive finite constant. The paper proves substantially more, showing that the entire quenched distribution of converges to an explicit random probability measure defined from the reflected point process. The same limiting distribution and second-moment constant are obtained for the spherical SK model. This does not resolve the broader low-temperature overlap structure of the SK model.
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Occurred: Aug 9, 2026
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Canonical aliases: Talagrand's critical Sherrington-Kirkpatrick overlap conjecture · Critical SK overlap
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Hang Du
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Brice Huang
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Du and Huang's companion paper on critical SK free-energy fluctuations, whose ideas this work extends evidence for this event
Dey and Kang (arXiv:2603.05636) - quotes Conjecture 11.7.5 as open, five months before this proof evidence for this event
Talagrand's critical Sherrington-Kirkpatrick overlap conjecture evidence for this event
Talagrand's Conjecture 11.7.5 is resolved affirmatively for the critical Ising Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model: converges to a positive finite constant. The paper proves substantially more, showing that the entire quenched distribution of converges to an explicit random probability measure defined from the reflected point process. The same limiting distribution and second-moment constant are obtained for the spherical SK model. This does not resolve the broader low-temperature overlap structure of the SK model. parent of this event
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