The combinatorics of the Jack parameter and the genus series for topological maps
Informally, a rooted map is a topologically pointed embedding of a graph in a surface. This thesis examines two problems in the enumerative theory of rooted maps. The b-Conjecture, due to Goulden and Jackson, predicts that structural similarities between the generating series for rooted orientable...
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Language: | en |
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2009
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10012/4561 |