Triple-point critical-window crossover

Establish the conjectured subcritical triple-point extension of the critical-line fluctuation theorem: when \(\varepsilon_N=1-\beta_N^2\to0\), \(N^{1/3-\\delta}\varepsilon_N\to\infty\) for some \(\delta>0\), and \(\gamma_N=1+w(N\varepsilon_N)^{-1/2}\), prove the stated convergence in distribution of the centered SKFI free energy to the quartic-integral law involving an independent standard Gaussian \(\zeta\).

Background

The critical-line theorem in the paper treats fixed β<1\beta<1 with γN=1+θN1/2\gamma_N=1+\theta N^{-1/2}. The authors explain that as βN1\beta_N\uparrow1, the relevant ferromagnetic crossover window changes scale to (NεN)1/2(N\varepsilon_N)^{-1/2}, eventually meeting the critical-temperature window near the triple point.

They explicitly conjecture an extension on the subcritical side, with a non-Gaussian quartic-integral limit. At and beyond the corner εNN1/3\varepsilon_N\asymp N^{-1/3}, they state that a sphere-to-cube comparison and spherical triple-point input would be needed.

References

On the subcritical side of this corner, we conjecture the following extension of Theorem~\ref{thm:A}(ii): if \varepsilon_N\to0 with N{1/3-\delta}\varepsilon_N\to\infty for some \delta>0, and \gamma_N = 1 + w(N\varepsilon_N){-1/2} for fixed w\in\dR, then

\ln Z_N(\beta_N,\gamma_N) - \ln Z_N{SK}(\beta_N,0) - \frac14\ln\big(2N\varepsilon_N\big) + \frac12\ln(2\pi)\overset{d}{\longrightarrow}\ln \int_\dR \exp\Big( \Big(\zeta + \frac{w}{\sqrt2}\Big)u2 - \frac{u4}{2} \Big)\,du,

where \zeta \sim \cN(0,1).

Fluctuations of the free energy of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model with ferromagnetic interaction  (2608.25362 - Dey et al., 26 Aug 2026) in Remark 2.2, “The triple point” (Section 1.4, following the related-results discussion)