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Maps in Locally Orientable Surfaces and Integrals Over Real Symmetric Surfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

I. P. Goulden  and
D. M. Jackson
I. P. Goulden
Affiliation:
I. P. Goulden and D. M. Jackson, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
D. M. Jackson
Affiliation:
I. P. Goulden and D. M. Jackson, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
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The genus series for maps is the generating series for the number of rooted maps with a given number of vertices and faces of each degree, and a given number of edges. It captures topological information about surfaces, and appears in questions arising in statistical mechanics, topology, group rings, and certain aspects of free probability theory. An expression has been given previously for the genus series for maps in locally orientable surfaces in terms of zonal polynomials. The purpose of this paper is to derive an integral representation for the genus series. We then show how this can be used in conjunction with integration techniques to determine the genus series for monopoles in locally orientable surfaces. This complements the analogous result for monopoles in orientable surfaces previously obtained by Harer and Zagier. A conjecture, subsequently proved by Okounkov, is given for the evaluation of an expectation operator acting on the Jack symmetric function. It specialises to known results for Schur functions and zonal polynomials.

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Type
Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 49 , Issue 5 , 01 October 1997 , pp. 865 - 882
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1997

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