Concentration of Equilibria and Relative Instability in Disordered Non-Relaxational Dynamics

Abstract

We consider a system of random autonomous ODEs introduced by Cugliandolo et al. [22], which serves as a non-relaxational analog of the gradient flow for the spherical p-spin model. The asymptotics for the expected number of equilibria in this model was recently computed by Fyodorov [32] in the high-dimensional limit, followed a similar computation for the expected number of stable equilibria by Garcia [38]. We show that for $p>9$ the number of equilibria, as well as the number of stable equilibria, concentrate around their respective averages, generalizing recent results of Subag and Zeitouni [61, 64] in the relaxational case. In particular, we confirm that this model undergoes a transition from relative to absolute instability, in the sense of Ben Arous, Fyodorov, and Khoruzhenko [11].

arXiv commentNumerous corrections and minor modifications. Some previously contained content involving random matrices has been expanded upon in a separate paper arxiv:2410.07478, and the overlap here removed in this version