Title
A bijection for covered maps on orientable surfaces
Abstract
Unicellular maps are a natural generalisation of plane trees to higher genus surfaces. In this article we study covered maps, which are maps together with a distinguished unicellular spanning submap. We prove that the covered maps of genus g with n edges are in bijection with pairs made of a plane tree with n edges and a bipartite unicellular map of genus g with n+1 edges. This generalises to any genus the bijection given in [O. Bernardi. Bijective counting of tree-rooted maps and shuffles of parenthesis systems. Electron. J. Combin., 14(1): Research Paper 9, 36 pp., 2007] between planar tree-rooted maps (maps with a distinguished spanning tree) and pairs made of a tree with n edges and a tree with n+1 edges.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.endm.2008.06.010
Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics
Field
DocType
Volume
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Bijection,Generalization,Bipartite graph,Spanning tree,Parenthesis,Mathematics
Journal
31
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1571-0653
0
0.34
References 
Authors
3
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Olivier Bernardi110614.20
Guillaume Chapuy27311.25