Self-intersections in combinatorial topology: statistical structure

DOI10.1007/S00222-011-0350-7zbMATH Open1252.57002arXiv1012.0580OpenAlexW2042920539MaRDI QIDQ421024FDOQ421024

Steven P. Lalley, Moira Chas

Publication date: 23 May 2012

Published in: Inventiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Oriented closed curves on an orientable surface with boundary are described up to continuous deformation by reduced cyclic words in the generators of the fundamental group and their inverses. By self-intersection number one means the minimum number of transversal self-intersection points of representatives of the class. We prove that if a class is chosen at random from among all classes of $m$ letters, then for large $m$ the distribution of the self-intersection number approaches the Gaussian distribution.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.0580

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zbMATH Keywords

closed orientable surfacerandom words in generators of fundamental group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Fundamental group, presentations, free differential calculus (57M05)

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