A bijection for nonorientable general maps (Q2693183)

Summary: We give a different presentation of a recent bijection due to \textit{G. Chapuy} and \textit{M. Dołęga} [J. Comb. Theory, Ser. A 145, 252--307 (2017; Zbl 1355.05094)] for nonorientable bipartite quadrangulations and we extend it to the case of nonorientable general maps. This can be seen as a Bouttier-Di Francesco-Guitter-like generalization of the Cori-Vauquelin-Schaeffer bijection in the context of general nonorientable surfaces. In the particular case of triangulations, the encoding objects take a particularly simple form and this allows us to recover a famous asymptotic enumeration formula found by \textit{Z.-C. Gao} [ibid. 52, No. 2, 236--249 (1991; Zbl 0751.05053)].