In this paper rooted loopless (near) 4-regular maps on surfaces such as the sphere and the projective plane are counted and exact formulae with up to three or four parameters for such maps are given. Several classical results on regular maps and one-faced maps are deduced.
The number of loopless planar maps
โ Scribed by Edward A. Bender; Nicholas C. Wormald
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1985
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 124 KB
- Volume
- 54
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0012-365X
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โฆ Synopsis
We derive a simple formula for the number of rooted loopless planar maps with a given number of edges and a given valency of the root vertex.
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