The Expected Genus of a Random Chord Diagram

Discrete & Computational Geometry - Tập 45 - Trang 161-180 - 2010
Nathan Linial1, Tahl Nowik2
1School of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
2Department of Mathematics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Tóm tắt

To any generic curve in an oriented surface there corresponds an oriented chord diagram, and any oriented chord diagram may be realized by a curve in some oriented surface. The genus of an oriented chord diagram is the minimal genus of an oriented surface in which it may be realized. Let g n denote the expected genus of a randomly chosen oriented chord diagram of order n. We show that g n satisfies: $$g_n=\frac{n}{2}-\varTheta (\ln n).$$ I.e., there exist 0

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