Strong asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials with respect to exponential weights

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1491-1552

  Deift, P ^a   Kriecherbauer, T ^d   Mclaughlin, K T R ^b   Venakides, S ^c   Zhou, X ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

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EID: 0033459230     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0312(199912)52:12<1491::aid-cpa2>3.0.co;2-%23     Document Type: Article

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