On the distributions of the lengths of the longest monotone subsequences in random words

Probability Theory and Related Fields

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 350-380

  Tracy, Craig A ^a   Widom, Harold ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0035634442     PISSN: 01788051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008763     Document Type: Article

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