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We describe the pole-free regions of the one-parameter family of special solutions of P$_\mathrm{II}$, the second Painlev\'e equation, constructed from the Airy functions. This is achieved by exploiting the connection between these…

In this paper we discuss Airy solutions of the second Painlev\'e equation (\mbox{\rm P$_{\rm II}$}) and two related equations, the Painlev\'e XXXIV equation ($\mbox{\rm P}_{34}$) and the Jimbo-Miwa-Okamoto $\sigma$ form of \mbox{\rm P$_{\rm…

We obtain the double scaling asymptotic behavior of the recurrence coefficients and the partition function at the critical point of the $N\times N$ Hermitian random matrix model with cubic potential. We prove that the recurrence…

We study unitary invariant random matrix ensembles with singular potentials. We obtain asymptotics for the partition functions associated to the Laguerre and Gaussian Unitary Ensembles perturbed with a pole of order $k$ at the origin, in…

We investigate the characteristic polynomials of the Gaussian $\beta$-ensemble for general $\beta>0$ through its transfer matrix recurrence. We show that the rescaled characteristic polynomial converges to a random entire function in a…

We study unitary random matrix ensembles of the form $Z_{n,N}^{-1} |\det M|^{2\alpha} e^{-N \Tr V(M)}dM$, where $\alpha>-1/2$ and $V$ is such that the limiting mean eigenvalue density for $n,N\to\infty$ and $n/N\to 1$ vanishes quadratically…

Okamoto has obtained a sequence of $\tau$-functions for the \PVI system expressed as a double Wronskian determinant based on a solution of the Gauss hypergeometric equation. Starting with integral solutions of the Gauss hypergeometric…

A perturbation series solution is constructed in terms of Airy functions for a nonlinear two-point boundary-value problem arising in an established model of steady electrodiffusion in one dimension, for two ionic species carrying equal and…

We study multiplicative statistics for the eigenvalues of unitarily-invariant Hermitian random matrix models. We consider one-cut regular polynomial potentials and a large class of multiplicative statistics. We show that in the large matrix…

We study the local properties of eigenvalues for the Hermite (Gaussian), Laguerre (Chiral) and Jacobi $\beta$-ensembles of $N\times N$ random matrices. More specifically, we calculate scaling limits of the expectation value of products of…

We study the monic orthogonal polynomials with respect to a singularly perturbed Airy weight. By using Chen and Ismail's ladder operator approach, we derive a discrete system satisfied by the recurrence coefficients for the orthogonal…

We investigate the asymptotic behaviour of the second-order correlation function of the characteristic polynomial of a Hermitian Wigner matrix at the edge of the spectrum. We show that the suitably rescaled second-order correlation function…

We consider unitary random matrix ensembles Z_{n,s,t}^{-1}e^{-n tr V_{s,t}(M)}dM on the space of Hermitian n x n matrices M, where the confining potential V_{s,t} is such that the limiting mean density of eigenvalues (as n\to\infty and…

We prove that the distribution function of the largest eigenvalue in the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble (GUE) in the edge scaling limit is expressible in terms of Painlev\'e II. Our goal is to concentrate on this important example of the…

In this paper, we study the asymptotic behavior of a family of pole-free solutions to the noncommutative Painlev\'e II equation. These particular solutions can be expressed in terms of the Fredholm determinant of the matrix version of the…

In this paper, we study a well known asymptotic limit in which the second Painlev\'e equation (P_II) becomes the first Painlev\'e equation (P_I). The limit preserves the Painlev\'e property (i.e. that all movable singularities of all…

For a wide class of Hermitian random matrices, the limit distribution of the eigenvalues close to the largest one is governed by the Airy point process. In such ensembles, the limit distribution of the k-th largest eigenvalue is given in…

The extended Airy kernel describes the space-time correlation functions for the Airy process, which is the limiting process for a polynuclear growth model. The Airy functions themselves are given by integrals in which the exponents have a…

In this paper we study the asymptotic behavior for large argument of a family of solutions of the Painlev\'e equation P$_{\rm VI} arising in the context of Random Matrix Theory [1]. We show this family of solutions are uniquely determined…

We study the averaged product of characteristic polynomials of large random matrices in the Gaussian beta-ensemble perturbed by an external source of finite rank. We prove that at the edge of the spectrum, the limiting correlations involve…