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arxiv: math-ph/0210034 · v2 · submitted 2002-10-17 · 🧮 math-ph · math.MP

Distribution functions for largest eigenvalues and their applications

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It is now believed that the limiting distribution function of the largest eigenvalue in the three classic random matrix models GOE, GUE and GSE describe new universal limit laws for a wide variety of processes arising in mathematical physics and interacting particle systems. These distribution functions, expressed in terms of a certain Painlev\'e II function, are described and their occurences surveyed.

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