Irreducibility of Moduli Spaces of Cyclic Unramified Covers of Genus g Curves

DOI10.2307/2000145zbMath0601.14022OpenAlexW4249479814MaRDI QIDQ3735848

R. Biggers, Michael D. Fried

Publication date: 1986

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2000145

zbMATH Keywords

Hurwitz spaceHurwitz monodromy groupcovering of Riemann surfacesNielsen type

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Algebraic moduli problems, moduli of vector bundles (14D20) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30)

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