Stability properties and probability distributions of multi-overlaps in dilute spin glasses

We prove that the Aizenman-Contucci relations, well known for fully connected spin glasses, hold in diluted spin glasses as well. We also prove more general constraints in the same spirit for multi-overlaps, systematically confirming and expanding previous results. The strategy that we employ makes no use of self-averaging, and allows us to generate hierarchically all such relations within the framework of random multi-overlap structures. The basic idea is to study, for these structures, the consequences of the closely related concepts of stochastic stability, quasi-stationarity under random shifts, factorization of the trial free energy. The very simple technique allows us to prove also the phase transition for the overlap: it remains strictly positive (on average) below the critical temperature if a suitable external field is first applied and then removed in the thermodynamic limit. We also deduce, from a cavity approach, the general form of the constraints on the distribution of multi-overlaps found within quasi-stationary random multi-overlap structures. © IOP Publishing Ltd.