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Random Surfaces with Boundary

Combinatorics 2021-04-21 v2 Geometric Topology

Abstract

A surface with boundary is randomly generated by gluing polygons along some of their sides. We show that its genus and number of boundary components asymptotically follow a bivariate normal distribution.

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@article{arxiv.2001.01713,
  title  = {Random Surfaces with Boundary},
  author = {Chaim Even-Zohar and Michael Farber},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.01713},
  year   = {2021}
}