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Dimer and fermionic formulations of a class of colouring problems
We show that the number Z of q-edge-colourings of a simple regular graph of
degree q is deducible from functions describing dimers on the same graph, viz.
the dimer generating function or equivalently the set of connected dimer
correlation functions. Using this relationship to the dimer problem, we derive
fermionic representations for Z in terms of Grassmann integrals with quartic
actions. Expressions are given for planar graphs and for nonplanar graphs
embeddable (without edge crossings) on a torus. We discuss exact numerical
evaluations of the Grassmann integrals using an algorithm by Creutz, and
present an application to the 4-edge-colouring problem on toroidal square
lattices, comparing the results to numerical transfer matrix calculations and a
previous Bethe ansatz study. We also show that for the square, honeycomb, 3-12,
and one-dimensional lattice, known exact results for the asymptotic scaling of
Z with the number of vertices can be expressed in a unified way as different
values of one and the same function.Comment: 16 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. v2: corrected an inconsistency in the
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On the expected number of perfect matchings in cubic planar graphs
A well-known conjecture by Lov\'asz and Plummer from the 1970s asserted that
a bridgeless cubic graph has exponentially many perfect matchings. It was
solved in the affirmative by Esperet et al. (Adv. Math. 2011). On the other
hand, Chudnovsky and Seymour (Combinatorica 2012) proved the conjecture in the
special case of cubic planar graphs. In our work we consider random bridgeless
cubic planar graphs with the uniform distribution on graphs with vertices.
Under this model we show that the expected number of perfect matchings in
labeled bridgeless cubic planar graphs is asymptotically , where
and is an explicit algebraic number. We also
compute the expected number of perfect matchings in (non necessarily
bridgeless) cubic planar graphs and provide lower bounds for unlabeled graphs.
Our starting point is a correspondence between counting perfect matchings in
rooted cubic planar maps and the partition function of the Ising model in
rooted triangulations.Comment: 19 pages, 4 figure
A Complete Grammar for Decomposing a Family of Graphs into 3-connected Components
Tutte has described in the book "Connectivity in graphs" a canonical
decomposition of any graph into 3-connected components. In this article we
translate (using the language of symbolic combinatorics)
Tutte's decomposition into a general grammar expressing any family of graphs
(with some stability conditions) in terms of the 3-connected subfamily. A key
ingredient we use is an extension of the so-called dissymmetry theorem, which
yields negative signs in the grammar.
As a main application we recover in a purely combinatorial way the analytic
expression found by Gim\'enez and Noy for the series counting labelled planar
graphs (such an expression is crucial to do asymptotic enumeration and to
obtain limit laws of various parameters on random planar graphs). Besides the
grammar, an important ingredient of our method is a recent bijective
construction of planar maps by Bouttier, Di Francesco and Guitter.Comment: 39 page
Subcritical graph classes containing all planar graphs
We construct minor-closed addable families of graphs that are subcritical and
contain all planar graphs. This contradicts (one direction of) a well-known
conjecture of Noy
Enumeration of labelled 4-regular planar graphs
We present the first combinatorial scheme for counting labelled 4-regular
planar graphs through a complete recursive decomposition. More precisely, we
show that the exponential generating function of labelled 4-regular planar
graphs can be computed effectively as the solution of a system of equations,
from which the coefficients can be extracted. As a byproduct, we also enumerate
labelled 3-connected 4-regular planar graphs, and simple 4-regular rooted maps
On the diameter of random planar graphs
We show that the diameter D(G_n) of a random labelled connected planar graph
with n vertices is equal to n^{1/4+o(1)}, in probability. More precisely there
exists a constant c>0 such that the probability that D(G_n) lies in the
interval (n^{1/4-\epsilon},n^{1/4+\epsilon}) is greater than
1-\exp(-n^{c\epsilon}) for {\epsilon} small enough and n>n_0(\epsilon). We
prove similar statements for 2-connected and 3-connected planar graphs and
maps.Comment: 24 pages, 7 figure
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