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

GAPbraid orbitsHurwitz braid groupcoverings of Riemann surfaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• GAP

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