Title
A Bijection for Rooted Maps on Orientable Surfaces
Abstract
The enumeration of maps and the study of uniform random maps have been classical topics of combinatorics and statistical physics ever since the seminal work of Tutte in the 1960s. Following the bijective approach initiated by Cori and Vauquelin in the '80s, we describe a bijection between rooted maps, or rooted bipartite quadrangulations, on a surface of genus $g$ and some simpler objects that generalize plane trees. Thanks to a rerooting argument, our bijection allows us to compute the generating series of rooted maps on a surface of genus $g$ with respect to the number of edges, and to recover the asymptotic numbers of such maps. Our construction allows us to keep track in a bipartite quadrangulation of the distances of all vertices to a random basepoint. This is an analogue for higher genus surfaces of the basic result on which were built the recent advances in the comprehension of the intrinsic geometry of large random planar maps, hopefully opening the way to the study of a model of continuum random surfaces of genus $g$.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1137/080720097
Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
rooted maps,bipartite quadrangulation,orientable surfaces,asymptotic number,rooted bipartite quadrangulations,rooted map,higher genus surface,random basepoint,continuum random surface,basic result,uniform random map,large random planar map,statistical physics
Discrete mathematics,Random map,Combinatorics,Bijection,Vertex (geometry),Bipartite graph,Intrinsic geometry,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
3
SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 23(3):1587-1611 (2009)
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
1.14
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guillaume Chapuy17311.25
Michel Marcus2262.58
Gilles Schaeffer342344.82