Near-optimal configurations in mean-field disordered systems.

We present a general technique to compute how the energy of a configuration varies as a function of its overlap with the ground state in the case of optimization problems. Our approach is based on a generalization of the cavity method to a system interacting with its ground state. With this technique we study the random matching problem as well as the mean-field diluted spin glass. As a by-product of this approach we calculate the de Almeida-Thouless transition line of the spin glass on a fixed connectivity random graph.

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