Fredholm Determinants, Jimbo-Miwa-Ueno τ-Functions, and Representation Theory

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1160-1230

  Borodin, Alexei ^a   Deift, Percy ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0036329601     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.10042     Document Type: Article

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