Minimum weight disk triangulations and fillings
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Abstract:
We study the minimum total weight of a disk triangulation using vertices out of $\{1,\ldots ,n\}$, where the boundary is the triangle $(123)$ and the $\binom {n}3$ triangles have independent weights, e.g. $\mathrm {Exp}(1)$ or $\mathrm {U}(0,1)$. We show that for explicit constants $c_1,c_2>0$, this minimum is $c_1 \frac {\log n}{\sqrt n} + c_2 \frac {\log \log n}{\sqrt n} + \frac {Y_n}{\sqrt n}$, where the random variable $Y_n$ is tight, and it is attained by a triangulation that consists of $\frac 14\log n + O_{P}(\sqrt {\log n})$ vertices. Moreover, for disk triangulations that are canonical, in that no inner triangle contains all but $O(1)$ of the vertices, the minimum weight has the above form with the law of $Y_n$ converging weakly to a shifted Gumbel. In addition, we prove that, with high probability, the minimum weights of a homological filling and a homotopical filling of the cycle $(123)$ are both attained by the minimum weight disk triangulation.References
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Additional Information
- Itai Benjamini
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
- MR Author ID: 311800
- Email: itai.benjamini@weizmann.ac.il
- Eyal Lubetzky
- Affiliation: Courant Institute, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, New York, New York 10012
- MR Author ID: 787713
- ORCID: 0000-0002-2281-3542
- Email: eyal@courant.nyu.edu
- Yuval Peled
- Affiliation: Courant Institute, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, New York, New York 10012
- MR Author ID: 1064288
- Email: yuval.peled@courant.nyu.edu
- Received by editor(s): January 27, 2020
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: July 23, 2020
- Published electronically: February 12, 2021
- Additional Notes: The second author was supported in part by NSF grant DMS-1812095.
- © Copyright 2021 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 374 (2021), 3265-3287
- MSC (2020): Primary 57K20, 60C05
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/tran/8255
- MathSciNet review: 4237948