English

Bijective counting of tree-rooted maps and shuffles of parenthesis systems

Combinatorics 2009-06-18 v1

Abstract

The number of tree-rooted maps, that is, rooted planar maps with a distinguished spanning tree, of size nn is C(n)C(n+1) where C(n)=binomial(2n,n)/(n+1) is the nth Catalan number. We present a (long awaited) simple bijection which explains this result. We prove that our bijection is isomorphic to a former recursive construction on shuffles of parenthesis systems due to Cori, Dulucq and Viennot.

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@article{arxiv.math/0601684,
  title  = {Bijective counting of tree-rooted maps and shuffles of parenthesis systems},
  author = {Olivier Bernardi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0601684},
  year   = {2009}
}