Gaussian fluctuation for the number of particles in Airy, Bessel, Sine, and other determinantal random point fields

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 100, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 491-522

  Soshnikov, Alexander B ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Airy and Bessel kernels; Central limit theorem; Classical compact groups; Determinantal random point fields; Random matrices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034338426     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1018672622921     Document Type: Article

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