Hurwitz spaces and braid group representations

DOI10.1216/rmjm/1181069840zbMath1079.32010MaRDI QIDQ1768069

Yaacov Kopeliovich, Eric P. Klassen

Publication date: 11 March 2005

Published in: Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1216/rmjm/1181069840

zbMATH Keywords

Hurwitz space; moduli space; branched cover; braid group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20C15: Ordinary representations and characters

20F36: Braid groups; Artin groups

32G15: Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables)

57M12: Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings

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