Application of the τ-Function Theory of Painlevé Equations to Random Matrices: Pv, PIII, the LUE, JUE, and CUE

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 679-727

  Forrester, P J ^a   Witte, N S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 0036254223     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.3021     Document Type: Article

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