On the irreducibility of Hurwitz spaces of coverings with two special fibers (Q2897184)

Since the XIX century, the Hurwitz spaces -- and in particular their irreducibility -- have been widely used and studied. In this paper the author proves the irreducibility of the Hurwitz space of coverings of degree \(d\) with two special fibres and monodromy group \(S_d\). To be more precise, the result proven is the following: given two smooth connected complex projective curves \(X\) and \(Y\) of genus respectively \(g\) and \(g'\), let \(b_0\) be a point of \(Y\) and let \(d\geq 3\) and \(n>0\) two integers and \(\underline e\) and \(\underline q\) two partitions of \(d\). Consider the equivalence classes of pairs \([f,\phi]\) such thatNEWLINENEWLINEi) \(f: X\longrightarrow Y\) is a degree \(d\) covering, whose monodromy group is \(S_d\) and such that it is unramified at \(b_0\), branched in \(n+2\) points \(n\) of which are of simple branching and two are special with local monodromy respectively \(\underline e\) and \(\underline q\).NEWLINENEWLINEii) \(\phi: f^{-1}(b_0)\longrightarrow \{1,\ldots , d\}\) is a bijection.NEWLINENEWLINEThen, if \(g\geq \frac{d}{2}(1+2g')+\frac{3}{2}\), the corresponding Hurwitz space is irreducible.