Limiting distributions for a polynuclear growth model with external sources

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 100, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 523-541

  Baik, Jinho ^a,b   Rains, Eric M ^c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

ASEP; Directed polymer; Limiting distribution; PNG; Random matrix

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034338413     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018615306992     Document Type: Article

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