Essentially irreducible maps and Weil-Petersson volumes (online seminar)

par Timothy Budd (Radboud University)

vendredi 15 mai 2020, 10:15 → 11:15 Europe/Paris

I will discuss the enumeration of certain maps on a genus-g surface, g ≥ 0, with n faces of prescribed even degrees with a girth constraint. More precisely I consider maps that have no vertices of degree one and that are essentially 2b-irreducible for b ≥ 0 meaning that simple contractible cycles of length 2b or less are disallowed unless they bound a single face of degree 2b. Using results of Bouttier & Guitter I will show that such maps are counted by polynomials in b and the face degrees and that the polynomials satisfy recursion relations ("string" and "dilaton" equations) in n. This generalizes a result by Norbury in the absence of the irreducibility constraint. Next, I will show that the leading orders in b of these polynomials are related to the Weil-Petersson volumes of hyperbolic surfaces with geodesic boundary components (at least when g=0,1). If time permits I will comment on a special case where this relation can be understood bijectively.

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