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*Result*: Harold Widom's work in random matrix theory.

Title:
Harold Widom's work in random matrix theory.
Authors:
Corwin, Ivan Z.1 (AUTHOR), Deift, Percy A.2 (AUTHOR), Its, Alexander R.3 (AUTHOR)
Source:
Bulletin (New Series) of the American Mathematical Society. Apr2022, Vol. 59 Issue 2, p155-173. 19p.
Subject Terms:
*MATHEMATICAL physics, *PAINLEVE equations, *DISTRIBUTION (Probability theory), *MATRIX functions, *RANDOM matrices
Database:
Academic Search Index

*Further Information*

*This is a survey of Harold Widom's work in random matrices. We start with his pioneering papers on the sine-kernel determinant, continue with his and Craig Tracy's groundbreaking results concerning the distribution functions of random matrix theory, touch on the remarkable universality of the Tracy–Widom distributions in mathematics and physics, and close with Tracy and Widom's remarkable work on the asymmetric simple exclusion process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]*