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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2022.6
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-160921
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2022/16092/
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Chapuy, Guillaume ; Louf, Baptiste ; Walsh, Harriet

Random Partitions Under the Plancherel-Hurwitz Measure, High Genus Hurwitz Numbers and Maps

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Abstract

We study the asymptotic behaviour of random integer partitions under a new probability law that we introduce, the Plancherel-Hurwitz measure. This distribution, which has a natural definition in terms of Young tableaux, is a deformation of the classical Plancherel measure. It appears naturally in the enumeration of Hurwitz maps, or equivalently transposition factorisations in symmetric groups.
We study a regime in which the number of factors in the underlying factorisations grows linearly with the order of the group, and the corresponding maps are of high genus. We prove that the limiting behaviour exhibits a new, twofold, phenomenon: the first part becomes very large, while the rest of the partition has the standard Vershik-Kerov-Logan-Shepp limit shape. As a consequence, we obtain asymptotic estimates for unconnected Hurwitz numbers with linear Euler characteristic, which we use to study random Hurwitz maps in this regime. This result can also be interpreted as the return probability of the transposition random walk on the symmetric group after linearly many steps.

BibTeX - Entry

@InProceedings{chapuy_et_al:LIPIcs.AofA.2022.6,
  author =	{Chapuy, Guillaume and Louf, Baptiste and Walsh, Harriet},
  title =	{{Random Partitions Under the Plancherel-Hurwitz Measure, High Genus Hurwitz Numbers and Maps}},
  booktitle =	{33rd International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2022)},
  pages =	{6:1--6:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-230-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{225},
  editor =	{Ward, Mark Daniel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16092},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-160921},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.AofA.2022.6},
  annote =	{Keywords: Random partitions, limit shapes, transposition factorisations, map enumeration, Hurwitz numbers, RSK algorithm, giant components}
}

Keywords: Random partitions, limit shapes, transposition factorisations, map enumeration, Hurwitz numbers, RSK algorithm, giant components
Collection: 33rd International Conference on Probabilistic, Combinatorial and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA 2022)
Issue Date: 2022
Date of publication: 08.06.2022

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