Nonintersecting brownian excursions

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 953-979

  Tracy, Craig A ^a   Widom, Harold ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian excursions; Determinants; Fredholm; Karlin McGregor; Nonintersecting paths; Painlev functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 36448952418     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: 10505164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/105051607000000041     Document Type: Article

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