Dessin d'enfant
TYPE OF GRAPH DRAWING USED TO STUDY RIEMANN SURFACES
Dessins d'enfant; Dessins d'enfants; Dessin d'Enfant; Shabat polynomial; Dessins d’enfants; Belyi pair
In mathematics, a dessin d'enfant is a type of graph embedding used to study Riemann surfaces and to provide combinatorial invariants for the action of the absolute Galois group of the rational numbers. The name of these embeddings is French for a "child's drawing"; its plural is either dessins d'enfant, "child's drawings", or dessins d'enfants, "children's drawings".