A proof of a conjecture for the number of ramified coverings of the sphere by the torus

DOI10.1006/jcta.1999.2992zbMath0939.05006arXivmath/9902009WikidataQ123145754 ScholiaQ123145754MaRDI QIDQ1818213

David M. Jackson, Ian P. Goulden

Publication date: 5 July 2000

Published in: Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9902009

zbMATH Keywords

sphere; torus; ramified coverings; analytic enumeration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

05A15: Exact enumeration problems, generating functions

57M12: Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings

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