Counting surface branched covers

DOI10.1556/012.2019.56.3.1431MaRDI QIDQ5244454zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Carlo Petronio, Filippo Sarti

Publication date 21 November 2019

Published in Studia Scientiarum Mathematicarum Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.08316

zbMATH Keywords

equivalenceHurwitz numbersurface branched cover

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12) 2-dimensional topology (including mapping class groups of surfaces, Teichmüller theory, curve complexes, etc.) (57K20)

Abstract: To a branched cover f between orientable surfaces one can associate a certain branch datum D(f), that encodes the combinatorics of the cover. This D(f) satisfies a compatibility condition called the Riemann-Hurwitz relation. The old but still partly unsolved Hurwitz problem asks whether for a given abstract compatible branch datum D there exists a branched cover f such that D(f)=D. One can actually refine this problem and ask how many these f's exist, but one must of course decide what restrictions one puts on such f's, and choose an equivalence relation up to which one regards them. And it turns out that quite a few natural choices are possible. In this short note we carefully analyze all these choices and show that the number of actually distinct ones is only three. To see that these three choices are indeed different we employ Grothendieck's dessins d'enfant.

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