The Widom-Dyson constant for the gap probability in random matrix theory

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 202, Issue 1 SPECIAL ISSUE, 2007, Pages 26-47

  Deift, P ^a   Its, A ^b   Krasovsky, I ^b,c   Zhou, X ^d  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic expansions; Correlation functions; Random matrices; Riemann Hilbert problem

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSIONS; RANDOM MATRICES; RIEMANN-HILBERT PROBLEMS;

PROBABILITY;

EID: 33847058828     PISSN: 03770427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cam.2005.12.040     Document Type: Article

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