Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Volume 5 (2001)

Number 6

Contents

Mathematical analysis of the photoelectric effect

Volker Bach, Frédéric Klopp, and Heribert Zenk

pp. 969-999

The spectral gap for the ferromagnetic spin-J XXZ chain

Tohru Koma, Bruno Nachtergaele, and Shannon Starr

pp. 1047-1090

On the difference equations with periodic coefficients

V. Buslaev and A. Fedotov

pp. 1105-1168

Optimal tail estimates for directed last passage site percolation with geometric random variables

Jinho Baik, Percy Deift, Ken T. R. McLaughlin, Peter Miller, and Xin Zhou

pp. 1207-1250