Journal
RANDOM STRUCTURES & ALGORITHMS
Volume 19, Issue 3-4, Pages 194-246Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/rsa.10021
Keywords
Airy function; analytic combinatorics; coalescing saddle points; multiconnectivity; planar map; random graph; random generation; singularity analysis; stable law
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A considerable number of asymptotic distributions arising in random combinatorics and analysis of algorithms are of the exponential-quadratic type, that is, Gaussian. We exhibit a class of universal phenomena that are of the exponential-cubic type, corresponding to distributions that involve the Airy function. In this article. such Airy phenomena are related to the coalescence of saddle points and the confluence of singularities of generating functions. For about a dozen types of random planar maps, a common Airy distribution (equivalently, a stable law of exponent 3/2) describes the sizes of cores and of largest (multi)connected components. Consequences include the analysis and fine optimization of random generation algorithms for a multiple connected planar graphs. Based on an extension of the singularity analysis framework suggested by the Airy case. the article also presents a general classification of compositional schemas in analytic combinatorics. (C) 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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