The number of ramified coverings of the sphere by the torus and surfaces of higher genera

DOI10.1007/PL00001274zbMATH Open0957.58011arXivmath/9902125MaRDI QIDQ1977730FDOQ1977730

I. P. Goulden, Alek Vainshtein, David M. Jackson

Publication date: 28 August 2000

Published in: Annals of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We obtain an explicit expression for the number of ramified coverings of the sphere by the torus with given ramification type for a small number of ramification points, and conjecture this to be true for an arbitrary number of ramification points. In addition, the conjecture is proved for simple coverings of the sphere by the torus. We obtain corresponding expressions for surfaces of higher genera for a small number of ramification points, and conjecture the general form for this number in terms of a symmetric polynomial that appears to be new. The approach involves the analysis of the action of a transposition to derive a system of linear partial differential equations that give the generating series for the desired numbers.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9902125

zbMATH Keywords

partitionsphereconjugacy classHurwitz relationramified \(N\)-fold coveringsymmetric generating series

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Enumeration in graph theory (05C30) Integration on manifolds; measures on manifolds (58C35) Moduli problems for topological structures (58D29)

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