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A bijection for essentially 4-connected toroidal triangulations

Discrete Mathematics 2017-07-27 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Transversal structures (also known as regular edge labelings) are combinatorial structures defined over 4-connected plane triangulations with quadrangular outer-face. They have been intensively studied and used for many applications (drawing algorithm, random generation, enumeration ...). In this paper we introduce and study a generalization of these objects for the toroidal case. Contrary to what happens in the plane, the set of toroidal transversal structures of a given toroidal triangulation is partitioned into several distributive lattices. We exhibit a subset of toroidal transversal structures, called balanced, and show that it forms a single distributive lattice. Then, using the minimal element of the lattice, we are able to enumerate bijectively essentially 4-connected toroidal triangulations.

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@article{arxiv.1707.08191,
  title  = {A bijection for essentially 4-connected toroidal triangulations},
  author = {Nicolas Bonichon and Benjamin Lévêque},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.08191},
  year   = {2017}
}

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67 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1702.07589

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