Counting Pan-Fan Maps on Nonorientable Surfaces

Yan Xu1, Yanpei Liu 1
1Department of Mathematics Beijing Jiaotong University Beijing 100044, P.R.China.

Abstract

In this paper, we obtain a general enumerating functional equation about rooted pan-fan maps on nonorientable surfaces. Based on this equation, an explicit expression of rooted pan-fan maps on the Klein bottle is given. Meanwhile, some simple explicit expressions with up to two parameters: the valency of the root face and the size for rooted one-vertexed maps on surfaces (Klein bottle, Torus, \(N_3\)) are provided.