A GAP Package for Braid Orbit Computation and Applications

DOI10.1080/10586458.2003.10504507MaRDI QIDQ4651431zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kay Magaard, S. Shpectorov, Helmut Völklein

Publication date 21 February 2005

Published in Experimental Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0304376, https://eudml.org/doc/51495

zbMATH Keywords

braid orbitscoverings of Riemann surfacesGAPHurwitz braid group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse Galois theory (12F12) Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Computational aspects of algebraic curves (14Q05) Topological methods in group theory (57M07)

Abstract: Let G be a finite group. By Riemann's Existence Theorem, braid orbits of generating systems of G with product 1 correspond to irreducible families of covers of the Riemann sphere with monodromy group G. Thus many problems on algebraic curves require the computation of braid orbits. In this paper we describe an implementation of this computation. We discuss several applications, including the classification of irreducible families of indecomposable rational functions with exceptional monodromy group.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a finite group. By Riemann's existence theorem, braid orbits of generating systems for \(G\) with product \(1\) correspond to irreducible familes of coverings of the Riemann sphere with monodromy group \(G\). In this article, the authors describe a GAP package for computing the braid orbits. They then apply these techniques to several interesting cases -- in particular to the problem of trying to classify indecomposable rational functions (in characteristic zero) of degree \(n\) whose monodromy group is not the alternating or symmetric group of degree \(n\). The group theoretic possibilities have almost been completely worked out by various authors and this program should be able to describe the various possibilities up to equivalence of covers. They also consider the case of indecomposable covers of degree \(n\) from the generic Riemann surface of genus \(g\) when \(g=2\) or \(3\) (if \(g \geq 4\), by results of the reviewer and various authors -- see the references-- only symmetric and alternating groups of degree \(n\) can occur).

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Uses Software

• GAP

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