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Walkers on the circle (2009)

Abstract
We demonstrate experimentally that the statistical properties of distances between pedestrians that are hindered from foregoing each other are described by the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble of random matrices. The explanation results from the fact that the trajectories of the otherwise autonomous walkers cannot cross and resemble non-colliding random walks.. Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures

Publication details
Download http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.1687
Repository arXiv (United States)
Keywords Physics - Physics and Society, Physics - Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
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