Zero-freeness in a tube for the Sherrington–Kirkpatrick partition function

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Let ZG(β)Z_{\bm{G}}(\beta) denote the partition function of the Sherrington–Kirkpatrick model, let ε>0\varepsilon>0, and let β2nd\beta_{\mathsf{2nd}} be the second-moment threshold. A constant-width tube is a tube T\mathcal{T} in the complex inverse-temperature plane containing the real interval [0,(1ε)β2nd][0,(1-\varepsilon)\cdot\beta_{\mathsf{2nd}}]. Zero-freeness in a tube. There exists a constant-width tube T[0,(1ε)β2nd]\mathcal{T}\supseteq [0,(1-\varepsilon)\cdot\beta_{\mathsf{2nd}}] such that ZG(β)Z_{\bm{G}}(\beta) is zero-free in T\mathcal{T} with high probability. This conjecture would strengthen the paper’s algorithmic results by replacing the existence of a large subset of successful inverse temperatures with a contiguous complex zero-free region. The supplied text does not indicate whether the conjecture has been resolved.

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Ferenc Bencs, Brice Huang, Daniel Z. Lee, Kuikui Liu and Guus Regts, “On zeros and algorithms for disordered systems: mean-field spin glasses”, arXiv:2507.15616 (2025).

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