We establish free-energy fluctuation limits for the Ising Sherrington--Kirkpatrick model in the nonzero parts of its critical window. For fixed $b\ne0$ and $\beta_N=1+bN^{-1/3}\sqrt{\log N}$, our main Gaussian orthogonal ensemble (GOE) result is \[ \sqrt{\frac6{\log N}}\left(F_{N,\beta_N}-N\,\mathrm{FE}(\beta_N)+\frac{...
Two star exponential random graph models (ERGMs) are an interesting special case of both general ERGMs and mean-field Ising models. In this paper, we study two star ERGMs conditioning on the edge density $p$. We begin with an analytic characterization of the replica symmetric region, where the conditional model is clos...
Let $A=(A_n)_{n\ge2}$ be a triangular array of random matrices, where $A_n=(a_{ij})_{1\le i,j\le n}$ is an $n\times n$ random matrix with independent real entries satisfying $\mathbb E a_{ij}=0$ and $\mathbb Ea_{ij}^2=1$, and put $\mathcal L_n=\log|\det A_n|$ and \[ W_n^{\mathrm d}(A_n):=\frac{\mathcal L_n - \frac12\lo...