  We review an approach which aims at studying discrete (pseudo-)manifolds in
dimension $d\geq 2$ and called random tensor models. More specifically, we
insist on generalizing the two-dimensional notion of $p$-angulations to higher
dimensions. To do so, we consider families of triangulations built out of
simplices with colored faces. Those simplices can be glued to form new building
blocks, called bubbles which are pseudo-manifolds with boundaries. Bubbles can
in turn be glued together to form triangulations. The main challenge is to
classify the triangulations built from a given set of bubbles with respect to
their numbers of bubbles and simplices of codimension two. While the colored
triangulations which maximize the number of simplices of codimension two at
fixed number of simplices are series-parallel objects called melonic
triangulations, this is not always true anymore when restricting attention to
colored triangulations built from specific bubbles. This opens up the
possibility of new universality classes of colored triangulations. We present
three existing strategies to find those universality classes. The first two
strategies consist in building new bubbles from old ones for which the problem
can be solved. The third strategy is a bijection between those colored
triangulations and stuffed, edge-colored maps, which are some sort of hypermaps
whose hyperedges are replaced with edge-colored maps. We then show that the
present approach can lead to enumeration results and identification of
universality classes, by working out the example of quartic tensor models. They
feature a tree-like phase, a planar phase similar to two-dimensional quantum
gravity and a phase transition between them which is interpreted as a
proliferation of baby universes.
