102 research outputs found
Local limits of uniform triangulations in high genus
We prove a conjecture of Benjamini and Curien stating that the local limits
of uniform random triangulations whose genus is proportional to the number of
faces are the Planar Stochastic Hyperbolic Triangulations (PSHT) defined in
arXiv:1401.3297. The proof relies on a combinatorial argument and the
Goulden--Jackson recurrence relation to obtain tightness, and probabilistic
arguments showing the uniqueness of the limit. As a consequence, we obtain
asymptotics up to subexponential factors on the number of triangulations when
both the size and the genus go to infinity.
As a part of our proof, we also obtain the following result of independent
interest: if a random triangulation of the plane is weakly Markovian in the
sense that the probability to observe a finite triangulation around the
root only depends on the perimeter and volume of , then is a mixture of
PSHT.Comment: 36 pages, 10 figure
On the minimal diameter of closed hyperbolic surfaces
We prove that the minimal diameter of a hyperbolic compact orientable surface
of genus is asymptotic to as . The proof relies on a
random construction, which we analyse using lattice point counting theory and
the exploration of random trivalent graphs.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figure
The prices of open access publishing: the composition of APC across different fields of sciences
Modern media technologies paved the way to the open access movement. Instead of the traditional academic subscription and publishing model, which allowed few big publishers to charge excessive publishing fees, the open access model raises the hope for a fair system, where scientific content is freely accessible and thus the dissemination of research work becomes possible at little cost. However, previous literature pointed out that big publishers seem to be able to preserve their market power when going from the subscription-based model to the open access model. In this paper, we take a closer look at the differences across disciplines. The publication routines in Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences and Health Sciences differ to a substantial extent. On these grounds, we test whether there are also differences in the explanations for the article processing charges (APC) across these disciplines. For doing so, we combined various data sources such as the dataset of the “Directory of Open Access”, the “OpenAPC Initiative” and the “CiteScore Metrics”. Our regression results show that the differences across the four fields in terms of publication habits and endowment levels allow publishers to exploit their market power to different extents
On the mixing time of the flip walk on triangulations of the sphere
A simple way to sample a uniform triangulation of the sphere with a fixed
number of vertices is a Monte-Carlo method: we start from an arbitrary
triangulation and flip repeatedly a uniformly chosen edge. We give a lower
bound in on the mixing time of this Markov chain.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures. Published versio
Drivers of article processing charges in open access
Large publishing companies have been dominating scientific publishing for long, which leads to high subscription fees and inhibited access to scientific knowledge. At digital era, the opportunity of an unrestricted access appears feasible, because the cost of publishing should be low. It is no longer the readers and libraries to pay subscription fees, but scientific organizations and authors themselves who pay for the cost of having their
article published. As the data shows, there is a tremendous variance of article processing charges (APC) across journals, which obviously cannot be explained by the costs. One of the explanatory variables could be reputation, but it only contributes less than 5% to the variance in APC. This study is meant to shed light on the various determinants of APC. Based on data from the OpenAPC Initiative, the Directory of Open Access Journals,
the Journal Impact Factor and the Essential Science Indicators of Web of Science, we employ ANOVA and multivariate regressions. The results show that market power plays an important role to explain APCs, inter alia, through market concentration, market position of individual publishers (publisher size), and the choice of hybrid publishing model
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