Longest increasing subsequences: From patience sorting to the Baik-Deift-Johansson theorem

Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 413-432

  Aldous, David ^a   Diaconis, Persi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0033458290     PISSN: 02730979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0273-0979-99-00796-x     Document Type: Article

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