Asymptotics of the partition function for random matrices via Riemann-Hilbert techniques and applications to graphical enumeration

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  Ercolani, N M ^a   McLaughlin, K D T R ^a,b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

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