Random matrices, vertex operators and the Virasoro algebra

DOI10.1016/0375-9601(95)00725-IzbMath0925.58032MaRDI QIDQ5917716

Mark Adler, Pierre van Moerbeke, Takahiro Shiota

Publication date: 15 November 1995

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

random matrices; probability distribution; Fredholm determinants; Virasoro algebra; vertex operators; matrix models; Virasoro vector fields; Painlevé distributions; Toda symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T40: Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics

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

81R10: Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations

37J35: Completely integrable finite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems, integration methods, integrability tests

82B41: Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics

60B99: Probability theory on algebraic and topological structures

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