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Growing uniform planar maps face by face

Probability 2022-01-13 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

We provide "growth schemes" for inductively generating uniform random 2p2p-angulations of the sphere with nn faces, as well as uniform random simple triangulations of the sphere with 2n2n faces. In the case of 2p2p-angulations, we provide a way to insert a new face at a random location in a uniform 2p2p-angulation with nn faces in such a way that the new map is precisely a uniform 2p2p-angulation with n+1n+1 faces. Similarly, given a uniform simple triangulation of the sphere with 2n2n faces, we describe a way to insert two new adjacent triangles so as to obtain a uniform simple triangulation of the sphere with 2n+22n+2 faces. The latter is based on a new bijective presentation of simple triangulations that relies on a construction by Poulalhon and Schaeffer.

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@article{arxiv.2110.14575,
  title  = {Growing uniform planar maps face by face},
  author = {Alessandra Caraceni and Alexandre Stauffer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.14575},
  year   = {2022}
}

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New version correcting a major typo in a statement

R2 v1 2026-06-24T07:14:26.178Z