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Universality for Last Passage Percolation in Thin Rectangles
Probability| Speaker: | Toufic Suidan, University of California at Santa Cruz |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Tue, Dec 6 2005, 3:10PM |
We consider the problem of last passage percolation (with general random variables) in thin rectangles and prove that the fluctuations of the last passage time are given by the Tracy-Widom GUE distribution. We explain connections to random matrix theory, Dyson's Brownian motion, and nonintersecting Browninan motions. This is joint work with J. Baik.