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From Alternating Sign Matrices to the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble

Probability 2015-06-16 v2 Mathematical Physics Combinatorics math.MP

Abstract

The aim of this note is to prove that fluctuations of uniformly random alternating sign matrices (equivalently, configurations of the six-vertex model with domain wall boundary conditions) near the boundary are described by the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble and the GUE-corners process.

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@article{arxiv.1306.6347,
  title  = {From Alternating Sign Matrices to the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble},
  author = {Vadim Gorin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.6347},
  year   = {2015}
}

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15 pages, 2 figures. v2: minor updates, to appear in Communications in Mathematical Physics