Enumeration of planar bipartite tight irreducible maps

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Hauptverfasser: Bouttier, Jérémie, Guitter, Emmanuel, Manet, Hugo
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author Bouttier, Jérémie
Guitter, Emmanuel
Manet, Hugo
author_facet Bouttier, Jérémie
Guitter, Emmanuel
Manet, Hugo
contents We consider planar bipartite maps which are both tight, i.e. without vertices of degree $1$, and $2b$-irreducible, i.e. such that each cycle has length at least $2b$ and such that any cycle of length exactly $2b$ is the contour of a face. It was shown by Budd that the number $\mathcal N_n^{(b)}$ of such maps made out of a fixed set of $n$ faces with prescribed even degrees is a polynomial in both $b$ and the face degrees. In this paper, we give an explicit expression for $\mathcal N_n^{(b)}$ by a direct bijective approach based on the so-called slice decomposition. More precisely, we decompose any of the maps at hand into a collection of $2b$-irreducible tight slices and a suitable two-face map. We show how to bijectively encode each $2b$-irreducible slice via a $b$-decorated tree drawn on its derived map, and how to enumerate collections thereof. We then discuss the polynomial counting of two-face maps, and show how to combine it with the former enumeration to obtain $\mathcal N_n^{(b)}$.
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spellingShingle Enumeration of planar bipartite tight irreducible maps
Bouttier, Jérémie
Guitter, Emmanuel
Manet, Hugo
Combinatorics
We consider planar bipartite maps which are both tight, i.e. without vertices of degree $1$, and $2b$-irreducible, i.e. such that each cycle has length at least $2b$ and such that any cycle of length exactly $2b$ is the contour of a face. It was shown by Budd that the number $\mathcal N_n^{(b)}$ of such maps made out of a fixed set of $n$ faces with prescribed even degrees is a polynomial in both $b$ and the face degrees. In this paper, we give an explicit expression for $\mathcal N_n^{(b)}$ by a direct bijective approach based on the so-called slice decomposition. More precisely, we decompose any of the maps at hand into a collection of $2b$-irreducible tight slices and a suitable two-face map. We show how to bijectively encode each $2b$-irreducible slice via a $b$-decorated tree drawn on its derived map, and how to enumerate collections thereof. We then discuss the polynomial counting of two-face maps, and show how to combine it with the former enumeration to obtain $\mathcal N_n^{(b)}$.
title Enumeration of planar bipartite tight irreducible maps
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.08802