Matrix integrals and enumeration of maps

Abstract

This chapter is an introduction to the connection between random matrices and maps, i.e graphs drawn on surfaces. We concentrate on the one-matrix model and explain how it encodes and allows to solve a map enumeration problem.

chapter of the "The Oxford Handbook of Random Matrix Theory", editors G. Akemann, J. Baik and P. Di Francesco ; 24 pages and 5 figures

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