Title
Regular maps on surfaces with large planar width
Abstract
A map is a cell decomposition of a closed surface; it is regular if its automorphism group acts transitively on the flags, mutually incident vertex-edge-face triples. The main purpose of this paper is to establish, by elementary methods, the following result: for each positive integer w and for each pair of integersp≥ 3 and q≥ 3 satisfying 1/p+ 1/q≤ 1/2, there is an orientable regular map with face-size p and valency q such that every non-contractible simple closed curve on the surface meets the 1-skeleton of the map in at least w points. This result has several interesting consequences concerning maps on surfaces, graphs and related concepts. For example, MacBeath’s theorem about the existence of infinitely many Hurwitz groups, or Vince’s theorem about regular maps of given type (p, q), or residual finiteness of triangle groups, all follow from our result.
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1006/eujc.2000.0441
Eur. J. Comb.
Keywords
Field
DocType
large planar width,regular map,simple closed curve,satisfiability
Integer,Automorphism group,Graph,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Valency,Jordan curve theorem,Planar,Regular map,Cell decomposition,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
2
0195-6698
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
1.02
8
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roman Nedela139247.78
Martin Škoviera242754.90