The shape of a typical boxed plane partition

New York Journal of Mathematics

Volumn 4, Issue , 1998, Pages 137-165

  Cohn, Henry ^a   Larsen, Michael ^b   Propp, James ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Calculus of variations; Limit laws for random structures; Plane partitions; Random tilings; Rhombus tilings of hexagons

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001580766     PISSN: 10769803     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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