The Annals of Probability

Invariance principles for random bipartite planar maps

Abstract

Random planar maps are considered in the physics literature as the discrete counterpart of random surfaces. It is conjectured that properly rescaled random planar maps, when conditioned to have a large number of faces, should converge to a limiting surface whose law does not depend, up to scaling factors, on details of the class of maps that are sampled. Previous works on the topic, starting with Chassaing and Schaeffer, have shown that the radius of a random quadrangulation with n faces, that is, the maximal graph distance on such a quadrangulation to a fixed reference point, converges in distribution once rescaled by n1/4 to the diameter of the Brownian snake, up to a scaling constant.

Using a bijection due to Bouttier, Di Francesco and Guitter between bipartite planar maps and a family of labeled trees, we show the corresponding invariance principle for a class of random maps that follow a Boltzmann distribution putting weight qk on faces of degree 2k: the radius of such maps, conditioned to have n faces (or n vertices) and under a criticality assumption, converges in distribution once rescaled by n1/4 to a scaled version of the diameter of the Brownian snake. Convergence results for the so-called profile of maps are also provided. The convergence of rescaled bipartite maps to the Brownian map, in the sense introduced by Marckert and Mokkadem, is also shown. The proofs of these results rely on a new invariance principle for two-type spatial Galton–Watson trees.

Article information

Source
Ann. Probab., Volume 35, Number 5 (2007), 1642-1705.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 5 September 2007

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aop/1189000924

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/009117906000000908

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2349571

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1208.05135

Citation

Marckert, Jean-François; Miermont, Grégory. Invariance principles for random bipartite planar maps. Ann. Probab. 35 (2007), no. 5, 1642--1705. doi:10.1214/009117906000000908. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aop/1189000924

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