Strong Topological Trivialization of Multi-Species Spherical Spin Glasses

Brice Huang, Mark Sellke

Abstract:

We study the landscapes of multi-species spherical spin glasses. Our results determine the phase boundary for annealed trivialization of the number of critical points, and establish its equivalence with a quenched \emph{strong topological trivialization} property. Namely in the "trivial" regime, the number of critical points is constant, all are well-conditioned, and all approximate critical points are close to a true critical point. As a consequence, we deduce that Langevin dynamics at sufficiently low temperature has logarithmic mixing time.

Our approach begins with the Kac--Rice formula. We derive closed form expressions for some asymptotic determinants studied in (Ben Arous-Bourgade-McKenna 2023, McKenna 2021), and characterize the annealed trivialization phase by explicitly solving a suitable multi-dimensional variational problem. To obtain more precise quenched results, we develop general purpose techniques to avoid sub-exponential correction factors and show non-existence of \emph{approximate} critical points. Many of the results are new even in the 1-species case.