Asymptotics of non-intersecting Brownian motions and a 4 × 4 Riemann-Hilbert problem

Journal of Approximation Theory

Volumn 153, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 225-256

  Daems, Evi ^a   Kuijlaars, Arno B J ^a   Veys, Willem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Multiple orthogonal polynomials; Non intersecting Brownian motion; Riemann Hilbert problem; Steepest descent analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 49449087974     PISSN: 00219045     EISSN: 10960430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jat.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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