On the distribution of the length of the longest increasing subsequence of random permutations

Journal of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1119-1178

  Baik, Jinho ^a   Deift, Percy ^a   Johansson, Kurt ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Orthogonal polynomials; Random matrices; Random permutations; Riemann Hilbert problems; Steepest descent method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033443150     PISSN: 08940347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0894-0347-99-00307-0     Document Type: Article

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