Largest-loop exponent conjecture for uniform meandric systems

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Let Sn\mathfrak S_n be a uniform meandric system of size nn, and order its loops by decreasing size. For each fixed k∈Nk\in\mathbb N, let the kkth largest loop be measured by its number of vertices. Largest-loop exponent conjecture. With probability tending to 11 as n→∞n\to\infty,

#{vertices of the kth largest loop of Sn}=nα+o(1),α=12(3−2)≈0.7929.\#\{\text{vertices of the $k$th largest loop of $\mathfrak S_n$}\}=n^{\alpha+o(1)},\qquad \alpha=\frac12(3-\sqrt2)\approx0.7929.

This is a KPZ-based prediction for the macroscopic loop sizes in uniform meandric systems and remains unproved.

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Jacopo Borga, Ewain Gwynne and Minjae Park, “On the geometry of uniform meandric systems”, arXiv:2212.00534 (2023).

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