The ACO Seminar (2016–2017)

Random constraint satisfaction problems encode many interesting questions in random graphs such as the chromatic and independence numbers. Ideas from statistical physics provide a detailed description of phase transitions and properties of these models. I will discuss the question of the number of solutions to random regular NAE-SAT. This involves understanding the condensation regime where the model undergoes what is known as a one step replica symmetry breaking transition. We expect these approaches to extend to a range of other models in the same universality class. Joint with with Nike Sun and Yumeng Zhang.