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Large N asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials, from integrability to algebraic geometry

Mathematical Physics 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory math.MP

Abstract

In this short lecture, we compute asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials, from a saddle point approximation. This is an example of a calculation which shows the link between integrability, algebraic geometry and random matrices.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0503052,
  title  = {Large N asymptotics of orthogonal polynomials, from integrability to algebraic geometry},
  author = {Bertrand Eynard},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0503052},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Proceedings Les Houches sumer school, Applications of Random Matrices in Physics, June 6-25 2004