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Record Nr.

UNINA9910372750903321

Autore

Nachmias Asaf

Titolo

Planar Maps, Random Walks and Circle Packing [[electronic resource] ] : École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XLVIII - 2018 / / by Asaf Nachmias

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Springer Nature, 2020

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-27968-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 120 p. 36 illus., 8 illus. in color.)

Collana

École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour, , 0721-5363 ; ; 2243

Disciplina

519.2

Soggetti

Probabilities

Discrete mathematics

Geometry

Mathematical physics

Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

Discrete Mathematics

Mathematical Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This open access book focuses on the interplay between random walks on planar maps and Koebe’s circle packing theorem. Further topics covered include electric networks, the He–Schramm theorem on infinite circle packings, uniform spanning trees of planar maps, local limits of finite planar maps and the almost sure recurrence of simple random walks on these limits. One of its main goals is to present a self-contained proof that the uniform infinite planar triangulation (UIPT) is almost surely recurrent. Full proofs of all statements are provided. A planar map is a graph that can be drawn in the plane without crossing edges, together with a specification of the cyclic ordering of the edges incident to each vertex. One widely applicable method of drawing planar graphs is given by Koebe’s circle packing theorem (1936). Various geometric properties of these drawings, such as existence of



accumulation points and bounds on the radii, encode important probabilistic information, such as the recurrence/transience of simple random walks and connectivity of the uniform spanning forest. This deep connection is especially fruitful to the study of random planar maps. The book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in mathematics and is suitable for a single-semester course; only a basic knowledge of graduate level probability theory is assumed.