Questions tagged [hurwitz-theory]
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Are spin Hurwitz numbers $r$-spin Hurwitz numbers?
(I think the answer is no, but I'm not sure.)
In Hurwitz theory, one counts $n$-fold branched covers $\Sigma'\to\Sigma$ of a Riemann surface $\Sigma$ with fixed
ramification data around each branch ...
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Spaces parametrizing ramified covers of surfaces
Let $\Sigma$ be a surface (let's say oriented and of finite type). We can consider the configuration space $F(\Sigma,n)$ of $n$ ordered distinct points on $\Sigma$, i.e. $\Sigma^n\setminus \Delta$ ...
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Connected relative Gromov Witten invariants
I am currently interested to compute relative Gromov Witten invariants(GW) over $\mathbb{P}^1$.
In the paper
https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0204305.pdf
eq 3.1 gives the count of relative disconnected GW ...
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Automorphism of finite groups and Hurwitz spaces
If $G$ is a finite group, embedded as a transitive subgroup of $S_n$ for some $n$, will every automorphism of $G$ extend to an inner automorphism of $S_n$?
I'm trying to connect the language that's ...
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fundamental domains in H^2 containing large balls
I would like to construct a genus $g$ surface regularly tiled by triangles (for example by 238 triangles). Edmunds-Ewing-Kulkarni prove that the only obstruction to doing this is Euler characteristic ...
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Generalising definition of Hurwitz number of compactified moduli space of curve
I am asking mostly for reference if such a definition exists in the literature. I am also interested in the count if it appears somewhere.
Let $\mu:=(\mu_1,\ldots , \mu_n)\vdash d$ for positive ...
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Which invertible linear maps preserve the set of Hurwitz stable matrices?
Let $V = M_n(\mathbb{R})$ be the set of all $n\times n$ matrices with real elements and $V_{-}$ be a subset of Hurwitz stable matrices, i.e. matrices such that all their eigenvalues have strictly ...
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holomorphic automorphisms of universal cover of configuration spaces
Hello everyone,
I have been trying (without success) to determine the following. Let $P$ denote the space of monic polynomials of degree $n$ with complex coefficients, which have distinct roots. It ...
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Cut and Join for Hurwitz number with multiple spin
Let me introduce some background of cut and join equation for spin Hurwitz number with the completed cycle as mentioned in
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1103.3120.pdf
We fix two partition $\mu $ and $\nu$ of ...
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A version of Hurwitz' theorem in terms of Euler characteristic
Page 203 of Farb and Margalit's Primer on Mapping Class Groups contains the result:
Let $g ≥ 2$. The order of any finite subgroup of $MCG(S_g)$ is at most $84(g − 1)$.
I've been told by my ...
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Reference request for widely used theorem
I am looking for a reference to the theorem that any oriented closed surface of genus $g$ is a 2-fold cover of $S^2$ (branched over 2$g$+2 points).
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Is this an explicit construction of a Hurwitz space with Galois group Z/p, p distinct branch points, and inertia group Z/(p-1)?
I am desperately confused and would like a sanity check that the following moduli space/stack is a Hurwitz space/stack. I would also appreciate any references on the topic of the explicit construction ...
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Cycles in the Chow ring of the moduli of curves coming from Hurwitz theory
Are there interesting cycles (other then the famous ones such as: Harris and Mumford's gonality divisor, the Gieseker-Petri divisor [which can be realized as the branch locus of a forgetful map from ...
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Conditions for a block matrix to be Hurwitz stable
Consider the following block matrix:
$$
A = \begin{bmatrix}
0 & I\\
-M & -I
\end{bmatrix}
$$
Suppose matrix $M$ is positive definite and satisfies $M\succeq \alpha I$, where $\alpha>0$ is a ...