Non-intersecting Brownian walkers and Yang-Mills theory on the sphere

Nuclear Physics B

Volumn 844, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 500-526

  Forrester, Peter J ^a   Majumdar, Satya N ^b   Schehr, Grégory ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

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EID: 78650174164     PISSN: 05503213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2010.11.013     Document Type: Article

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