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Dynamics of Triangulations

Mathematical Physics 2009-11-10 v1 Statistical Mechanics math.MP

Abstract

We study a few problems related to Markov processes of flipping triangulations of the sphere. We show that these processes are ergodic and mixing, but find a natural example which does not satisfy detailed balance. In this example, the expected distribution of the degrees of the nodes seems to follow the power law d4d^{-4}.

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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0412085,
  title  = {Dynamics of Triangulations},
  author = {Pierre Collet and Jean-Pierre Eckmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0412085},
  year   = {2009}
}