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2003 A System of Differential Equations for the Airy Process
Craig Tracy, Harold Widom
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Electron. Commun. Probab. 8: 93-98 (2003). DOI: 10.1214/ECP.v8-1074

Abstract

The Airy process is characterized by its $m$-dimensional distribution functions. For $m=1$ it is known that this distribution function is expressible in terms of a solution to Painleve II. We show that each finite-dimensional distribution function is expressible in terms of a solution to a system of differential equations.

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Craig Tracy. Harold Widom. "A System of Differential Equations for the Airy Process." Electron. Commun. Probab. 8 93 - 98, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1214/ECP.v8-1074

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Accepted: 24 June 2003; Published: 2003
First available in Project Euclid: 18 May 2016

zbMATH: 1067.82031
MathSciNet: MR1987098
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/ECP.v8-1074

Subjects:
Primary: 60K35
Secondary: 05A16 , 33E17 , 82B44

Keywords: Airy process. Extended Airy kernel. Growth processes. Integrable differential equations

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