Plane bipolar orientations and quadrant walks
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Publication:6318552
arXiv1905.04256MaRDI QIDQ6318552FDOQ6318552
Mireille Bousquet-Mélou, Éric Fusy, Kilian Raschel
Publication date: 10 May 2019
Abstract: Bipolar orientations of planar maps have recently attracted some interest in combinatorics, probability theory and theoretical physics. Plane bipolar orientations with edges are known to be counted by the th Baxter number , which can be defined by a linear recurrence relation with polynomial coefficients. Equivalently, the associated generating function is D-finite. In this paper, we address a much refined enumeration problem, where we record for every the number of faces of degree . When these degrees are bounded, we show that the associated generating function is given as the constant term of a multivariate rational series, and thus is still D-finite. We also provide detailed asymptotic estimates for the corresponding numbers. The methods used earlier to count all plane bipolar orientations, regardless of their face degrees, do not generalize easily to record face degrees. Instead, we start from a recent bijection, due to Kenyon et al., that sends bipolar orientations onto certain lattice walks confined to the first quadrant. Due to this bijection, the study of bipolar orientations meets the study of walks confined to a cone, which has been extremely active in the past 15 years. Some of our proofs rely on recent developments in this field, while others are purely bijective. Our asymptotic results also involve probabilistic arguments.
Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17) Asymptotic enumeration (05A16) Stopping times; optimal stopping problems; gambling theory (60G40)
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