Tropical jucys covers (Q2137867)

The aim of this paper is threefold. Starting from previous work on monotone and strictly monotone Hurwitz numbers in terms of the fermionic Fock space, the authors derive an expression of these variants of Hurwitz numbers in terms of the bosonic Fock space. This yields to an interpretation in terms of tropical geometry involving local multiplicities given by Gromov-Witten invariants. The authors prove that a main result of Cavalieri-Johnson-Markwig-Ranganathan is actually equivalent to the Gromov-Witten/Hurwitz correspondence by Okounkov-Pandharipande for the equivariant Riemann sphere. This paper is organized as follows: The first section is an introduction to the subject. In Section 2 the authors introduce the basic notions revolving around the relation between Hurwitz numbers, Gromov-Witten theory, the Fock space and tropical geometry needed for their work. In Section 3 they derive a bosonic expression for monotone and strictly monotone Hurwitz numbers from the fermionic one. This is done by means of the boson-fermion correspondence. The fermionic expression itself is recovered from the fermionic expression for the power sums via transformations at the level of symmetric functions. The main result obtained lies in Section 4, where the authors express monotone and strictly monotone Hurwitz numbers in terms of tropical covers with local multiplicities given by Gromov-Witten invariants. This is achieved by applying Wick's theorem to the expressions obtained from the bosonification. Finally, in Section 5 the authors analyse and compare the original [\textit{A. Okounkov} and \textit{R. Pandharipande}, Ann. Math. (2) 163, No. 2, 517--560 (2006; Zbl 1105.14076)] and the tropical [\textit{R. Cavalieri} et al., Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 97, 139--167 (2018; Zbl 1451.14177)] version of Gromov-Witten/Hurwitz correpondence via the semiinfinite wedge formalism.