Free energy in multi-species mixed p-spin spherical models

We prove a Parisi formula for the limiting free energy of multi-species spherical spin glasses with mixed p-spin interactions. The upper bound involves a Guerra-style interpolation and requires a convexity assumption on the model’s covariance function. Meanwhile, the lower bound adapts the cavity method of Chen so that it can be combined with the synchronization technique of Panchenko; this part requires no convexity assumption. In order to guarantee that the resulting Parisi formula has a minimizer, we formalize the pairing of synchronization maps with overlap measures so that the constraint set is a compact metric space. This space is not related to the model’s spherical structure and can be carried over to other multi-species settings.