Random cubic planar maps

We analyse uniform random cubic rooted planar maps and obtain limiting distributions for several parameters of interest. From the enumerative point of view, we present a unified approach for the enumeration of several classes of cubic planar maps, which allow us to recover known results in a more ge...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Drmota, Michael, Noy Serrano, Marcos|||0000-0002-2399-1359, Requile, Clement|||0000-0002-7689-7972, Rué Perna, Juan José|||0000-0002-6420-3179
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/395379
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/395379
https://dx.doi.org/10.37236/11619
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Graph theory
enumerative combinatorics
analytic combinatorics
map enumeration
Grafs, Teoria de
Classificació AMS::05 Combinatorics::05C Graph theory
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Matemàtica discreta::Teoria de grafs
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Sumario:We analyse uniform random cubic rooted planar maps and obtain limiting distributions for several parameters of interest. From the enumerative point of view, we present a unified approach for the enumeration of several classes of cubic planar maps, which allow us to recover known results in a more general and transparent way. This approach allows us to obtain new enumerative results. Concerning random maps, we first obtain the distribution of the degree of the root face, which has an exponential tail as for other classes of random maps. Our main result is a limiting map-Airy distribution law for the size of the largest block L, whose expectation is asymptotically n/v3 in a random cubic map with n+ 2 faces. We prove analogous results for the size of the largest cubic block, obtained from L by erasing all vertices of degree two, and for the size of the largest 3-connected component, whose expected values are respectively n/2 and n/4. To obtain these results we need to analyse a new type of composition scheme which has not been treated by Banderier et al. [Random Structures Algorithms 2001].