Scaling limits of bipartite planar maps are homeomorphic to the 2-sphere

DOI10.1007/S00039-008-0671-XzbMATH Open1166.60006arXivmath/0612315OpenAlexW2017671517MaRDI QIDQ1024665FDOQ1024665

J.-F. Le Gall, Frédéric Paulin

Publication date: 17 June 2009

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that scaling limits of random planar maps which are uniformly distributed over the set of all rooted 2k-angulations are a.s. homeomorphic to the two-dimensional sphere. Our methods rely on the study of certain random geodesic laminations of the disk.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612315

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C80) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22) Foliations in differential topology; geometric theory (57R30)

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