Abstract:
Maximal chord diagrams up to all isomorphisms are enumerated. The enumerating formula is based on a bijection between rooted one-vertex one-face maps on locally orientable surfaces and a certain class of symmetric chord diagrams. This result extends the one of Cori and Marcus regarding maximal chord diagrams enumerated up to rotations.
Key words and phrases:chord diagrams, maps on surfaces, unlabelled enumeration.