Scale invariance of the PNG droplet and the airy process

Journal of Statistical Physics

Volumn 108, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 1071-1106

  Prähofer, Michael ^a   Spohn, Herbert ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airy process; Free fermion techniques; Longest increasing subsequences; PNG model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141450340     PISSN: 00224715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019791415147     Document Type: Article

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