Bijective counting of plane bipolar orientations and Schnyder woods

dc.creatorFusy, Eric
dc.creatorPoulalhon, Dominique
dc.creatorSchaeffer, Gilles
dc.date2008-03-04
dc.date2009-03-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:54:00Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:54:00Z
dc.descriptionA bijection $Φ$ is presented between plane bipolar orientations with prescribed numbers of vertices and faces, and non-intersecting triples of upright lattice paths with prescribed extremities. This yields a combinatorial proof of the following formula due to R. Baxter for the number $Θ_{ij}$ of plane bipolar orientations with $i$ non-polar vertices and $j$ inner faces: $Θ_{ij}=2\frac{(i+j)!(i+j+1)!(i+j+2)!}{i!(i+1)!(i+2)!j!(j+1)!(j+2)!}$. In addition, it is shown that $Φ$ specializes into the bijection of Bernardi and Bonichon between Schnyder woods and non-crossing pairs of Dyck words.
dc.descriptionAn extended abstract describing the bijection without proofs has appeared in the proceedings of Eurocomb'07
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0803.0400
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0803.0400
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/223783
dc.subjectCombinatorics
dc.subject05A15
dc.titleBijective counting of plane bipolar orientations and Schnyder woods
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