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The authors use Riemann-Hilbert methods to compute the constant that arises in the asymptotic behavior of the Airy-kernel determinant of random matrix theory.
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Deift, P., Its, A. & Krasovsky, I. Asymptotics of the Airy-Kernel Determinant. Commun. Math. Phys. 278, 643–678 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-007-0409-x
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