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Orthogonal Polynomials and Random Matrices: A Riemann-Hilbert Approach

Book information

Publisher
American Mathematical Society
Year
2000
ISBN
9780821826959, 0821826956
LCC
QA404.5 .D37 2000
Open Library ID
OL6794006M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (1622554 bytes)
Series
Courant Lecture Notes
Pages
269\269
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

This volume expands on a set of lectures held at the Courant Institute on Riemann-Hilbert problems, orthogonal polynomials, and random matrix theory. The goal of the course was to prove universality for a variety of statistical quantities arising in the theory of random matrix models. The central question was the following: Why do very general ensembles of random $n {\times} n$ matrices exhibit universal behavior as $n {\rightarrow} {\infty}$? The main ingredient in the proof is the steepest descent method for oscillatory Riemann-Hilbert problems.

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