The arctic circle boundary and the airy process

Annals of Probability

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-30

  Johansson, Kurt ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Airy process; Determinantal process; Dimer model; Random matrices; Random tiling

Indexed keywords

EID: 14944380861     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009117904000000937     Document Type: Article

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