Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire, 80B.33 (2018), 12 pp.

Baptiste Louf

A New Family of Bijections for Planar Maps

Abstract. We present bijections for the planar cases of two formulas on maps that arise from the KP hierarchy (Goulden-Jackson and Carrell-Chapuy formulas), relying on a "cut-and-slide" operation. This is the first time a bijective proof is given for quadratic map-counting formulas derived from the KP hierarchy. Up to now, only the linear one-faced case was known (Harer-Zagier recurrence and Chapuy-Féray-Fusy bijection). As far as we know, this bijection is new and not equivalent to any of the well-known bijections between planar maps and tree-like objects.


Received: November 14, 2017. Accepted: February 17, 2018. Final version: April 1, 2018.

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