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Tight Low Degree Hardness for Optimizing Pure Spherical Spin Glasses

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arxiv 2504.04632 v1 pith:YDAPYYDP submitted 2025-04-06 math.PR cond-mat.dis-nncs.DSmath-phmath.MP

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We prove constant degree polynomial algorithms cannot optimize pure spherical $p$-spin Hamiltonians beyond the algorithmic threshold $\mathsf{ALG}(p)=2\sqrt{\frac{p-1}{p}}$. The proof goes by transforming any hypothetical such algorithm into a Lipschitz one, for which hardness was shown previously by the author and B. Huang.

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