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Enumeration of labelled 4-regular planar graphs

Combinatorics 2019-07-26 v3

Abstract

We present the first combinatorial scheme for counting labelled 4-regular planar graphs through a complete recursive decomposition. More precisely, we show that the exponential generating function of labelled 4-regular planar graphs can be computed effectively as the solution of a system of equations, from which the coefficients can be extracted. As a byproduct, we also enumerate labelled 3-connected 4-regular planar graphs, and simple 4-regular rooted maps.

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@article{arxiv.1709.04678,
  title  = {Enumeration of labelled 4-regular planar graphs},
  author = {Marc Noy and Clément Requilé and Juanjo Rué},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.04678},
  year   = {2019}
}
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