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View SchemaUniversality of the distribution functions of random matrix theory
| Authors | Craig A. Tracy, Harold Widom |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | solv-int/9901003 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/solv-int/9901003 |
| Journal | Statistical Physics on the Eve of the 21st Century: In Honour of J B McGuire on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, eds. M. T. Batchelor and L. T. Wille, World Scientific Pub., 1999, pgs. 230-239. |
Abstract
This paper first surveys the connection of integrable systems of the Painleve type to various distribution functions appearing in Wigner-Dyson random matrix theory. A short discussion is then given of the appearance of these same distributions in other areas of mathematics.
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