Degrees of cohomology classes of multisingularities in Hurwitz spaces of rational functions

DOI10.1007/S10688-019-0245-8MaRDI QIDQ2278731zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. S. Bychkov

Publication date 10 December 2019

Published in Functional Analysis and Its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00504

zbMATH Keywords

discriminant strata of Hurwitz spaceHurwitz numbersHurwitz spaces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (analytic) (14H15) Special algebraic curves and curves of low genus (14H45)

Abstract: The main goal of the present paper are new formulae for degrees of strata in Hurwitz spaces of rational functions having two degenerate critical values with preimages of prescribed multiplicities. We consider the case where the multiplicities of the preimages of one critical value are arbitrary, while the second critical value has degeneracy of codimension~$1$. Our formulae are based on the universal cohomological expressions for codimension~$1$ strata in terms of certain basic cohomology classes in general Hurwitz spaces of rational functions obtained by M.~Kazarian and S.~Lando. We prove new relations valid in cohomology of Hurwitz spaces that were conjectured by M.~Kazarian on the base of computer experiments. As a corollary, we obtain new, previously unknown, explicit formulae for certain families of double Hurwitz numbers in genus~$0$. One may hope that the methods developed in the present paper are applicable to proving more general relations in cohomology rings of Hurwitz spaces and deducing more general formulae for double Hurwitz numbers.

Review text

Hurwitz spaces are spaces of meromorphic functions with prescribed orders of poles on curves of a given genus. The aim of this paper is to derive new formulas for the degrees of the strata of Hurwitz spaces of genus \(0\) corresponding to functions that have two degenerate critical values with prescribed partitions of multiplicities of the preimages. More precisely, one of the critical values has an arbitrary multiplicity of the preimages, while the other is the simplest degenerate critical value. The paper is divided into two parts and is organized as follows: The first part is an introduction to all the necessary concepts, gives a description of Hurwitz spaces and states the main results. In the second part, the author presents the proofs of all intermediate assertions and the main theorem obtained in this paper. Finally, at the end of the paper the author gives a proof of Kazarian's identities.

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