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Unsensed enumeration of cubic unicellular maps on orientable and non-orientable surfaces

Combinatorics 2026-01-27 v3

Abstract

We enumerate cubic (3-regular) unicellular maps on closed surfaces up to all homeomorphisms. Using the orbifold approach, we reduce the unsensed enumeration to explicit counts of quotient maps and rooted cubic/precubic maps on simpler surfaces. For orientable hosts this yields a compact identity expressed through known sensed and rooted numbers; for non orientable hosts we obtain a fully explicit finite sum expression via precubic counts. Numerical tables are provided, together with a brief asymptotic discussion.

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@article{arxiv.1901.06591,
  title  = {Unsensed enumeration of cubic unicellular maps on orientable and non-orientable surfaces},
  author = {Alexander Omelchenko and Igor Labutin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.06591},
  year   = {2026}
}

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arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1712.10139