Hurwitz spaces and liftings to the Valentiner group

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2017.03.002MaRDI QIDQ2401906zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Riccardo Moschetti, Gian Pietro Pirola

Publication date 5 September 2017

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02844

Hurwitz schemes monodromy, curves, Valentiner group

Structure of families (Picard-Lefschetz, monodromy, etc.) (14D05) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30) Computational aspects of algebraic curves (14Q05)

Abstract: We study the components of the Hurwitz scheme of ramified coverings of

m a t h b b P^{1}

with monodromy given by the alternating group

A_{6}

and elements in the conjugacy class of product of two disjoint cycles. In order to detect the connected components of the Hurwitz scheme, inspired by the case of the spin structures studied by Fried for the

3

-cycles, we use as invariant the lifting to the Valentiner group, triple covering of

A_{6}

. We prove that the Hurwitz scheme has two irreducible components when the genus of the covering is greater than zero, in accordance with the asymptotic solution found by Bogomolov and Kulikov.

Review text

This paper deals with Hurwitz schemes of branched covers of the projective line, with Galois group \(A_6\) branched on \(k\) points and monodromy given by the conjugacy class of two disjoint cycles. The authors prove that for \(k\) greater or equal to six, the absolute Hurwitz space has two components and only one component for \(k=5\). Their result goes in line with the asymptotic results of Kulikov and Bogomolov. They also consider the inner Hurwitz space i.e. the space of Galois closures, where they prove that there are three components for \(k\) greater or equal to six and two components for \(k=5\). On the technical side they use an interesting approach inspired by Frieds spin structures: a lifting to the Valentiner group serves as an invariant.

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