Scaling limits of bipartite planar maps are homeomorphic to the 2-sphere

Geometric and Functional Analysis

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 893-918

  Le Gall, Jean François ^a   Paulin, Frédéric ^b  

^a Institut Uuniversitaire de France   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

Brownian snake; Geodesic lamination; Random planar map; Random tree; Scaling limit

Indexed keywords

EID: 52449120370     PISSN: 1016443X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00039-008-0671-x     Document Type: Article

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