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Reflected Brownian Motions in the KPZ Universality Class

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Back in 1931 Hans Bethe diagonalized the hamiltonian of the one-dimensional Heisenberg spin chain through what is now called the “Bethe ansatz” Bethe (1931).

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  1. Zentrum Mathematik, Technische Universität München, Garching, Germany

    Thomas Weiss

  2. Institut für Angewandte Mathematik, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Patrik Ferrari

  3. Zentrum Mathematik, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany

    Herbert Spohn

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Weiss, T., Ferrari, P., Spohn, H. (2017). Introduction. In: Reflected Brownian Motions in the KPZ Universality Class. SpringerBriefs in Mathematical Physics, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49499-9_1

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