Universality of Annealed Complexity in the Spherical Pure $p$-Spin Model

Abstract

In an influential work, Auffinger, Ben Arous, and Černý (2013) investigated the limiting annealed complexity in the spherical pure $p$-spin model associated to the Gaussian disorder. Their results, in particular, included an explicit expression for the total number of critical points of the Hamiltonian below any given energy level. In this paper, we consider the same anneal complexity associated to a disorder interpolating between an arbitrary random variable and its Gaussian counterpart. Assuming strict subgaussianity of the former, our result shows that the annealed complexity shares the same limit as in the Gaussian case.