Electronic Journal of Probability

Recurrence of Distributional Limits of Finite Planar Graphs

Abstract

Suppose that $G_j$ is a sequence of finite connected planar graphs, and in each $G_j$ a special vertex, called the root, is chosen randomly-uniformly. We introduce the notion of a distributional limit $G$ of such graphs. Assume that the vertex degrees of the vertices in $G_j$ are bounded, and the bound does not depend on $j$. Then after passing to a subsequence, the limit exists, and is a random rooted graph $G$. We prove that with probability one $G$ is recurrent. The proof involves the Circle Packing Theorem. The motivation for this work comes from the theory of random spherical triangulations.

Article information

Source
Electron. J. Probab. Volume 6 (2001), paper no. 23, 13 pp.

Dates
Accepted: 19 September 2001
First available in Project Euclid: 19 April 2016

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1461097653

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/EJP.v6-96

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR1873300

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1010.82021

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Citation

Benjamini, Itai; Schramm, Oded. Recurrence of Distributional Limits of Finite Planar Graphs. Electron. J. Probab. 6 (2001), paper no. 23, 13 pp. doi:10.1214/EJP.v6-96. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1461097653

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