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pith:W3AYEE2O

pith:2011:W3AYEE2O5XETUK4FWZGG633ZXO

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A simple derivation of the Tracy-Widom distribution of the maximal eigenvalue of a Gaussian unitary random matrix

Celine Nadal, Satya N. Majumdar

arxiv:1102.0738 v3 · 2011-02-03 · cond-mat.stat-mech · math-ph · math.MP

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\pithnumber{W3AYEE2O5XETUK4FWZGG633ZXO}

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:21:12.132900Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b6c182134eedc93a2b85b64c6f6f79bb980db2a2a757efd0c1cae598ad7715c8

Aliases

arxiv: 1102.0738 · arxiv_version: 1102.0738v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1102.0738 · pith_short_12: W3AYEE2O5XET · pith_short_16: W3AYEE2O5XETUK4F · pith_short_8: W3AYEE2O

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/W3AYEE2O5XETUK4FWZGG633ZXO \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: b6c182134eedc93a2b85b64c6f6f79bb980db2a2a757efd0c1cae598ad7715c8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "232dfe0d5abcf8a1bdb4b70c241158706b32091e5d92c49c2447ea2f041d0b55",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math-ph",
      "math.MP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "submitted_at": "2011-02-03T17:29:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "08b41b8b4c4021e5e3e680a4052d8f1ab5e17c2de930daf87eba28a9f96ad878"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "1102.0738",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}