Caustics, counting maps and semi-classical asymptotics

DOI10.1088/0951-7715/24/2/006zbMath1218.15017arXiv0912.1904MaRDI QIDQ3080040

Nicholas M. Ercolani

Publication date: 4 March 2011

Published in: Nonlinearity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1904

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansion; partition function; Burgers equation; generating function; genus expansion; Catalan numbers; three-term recurrence relation; map enumeration; unitary ensemble; random Hermitian matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60B20: Random matrices (probabilistic aspects)

05A15: Exact enumeration problems, generating functions

37K10: Completely integrable infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian systems, integration methods, integrability tests, integrable hierarchies (KdV, KP, Toda, etc.)

05C30: Enumeration in graph theory

34M55: Painlevé and other special ordinary differential equations in the complex domain; classification, hierarchies

15B52: Random matrices (algebraic aspects)

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