Counting surface-kernel epimorphisms from a co-compact Fuchsian group to a cyclic group with motivations from string theory and QFT

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2016.07.028zbMATH Open1345.81096arXiv1603.02154OpenAlexW2296492830MaRDI QIDQ314896FDOQ314896

Authors: Khodakhast Bibak, Bruce M. Kapron, Venkatesh Srinivasan 

Publication date: 16 September 2016

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Graphs embedded into surfaces have many important applications, in particular, in combinatorics, geometry, and physics. For example, ribbon graphs and their counting is of great interest in string theory and quantum field theory (QFT). Recently, Koch, Ramgoolam, and Wen [Nuclear Phys.,B {�f 870} (2013), 530--581] gave a refined formula for counting ribbon graphs and discussed its applications to several physics problems. An important factor in this formula is the number of surface-kernel epimorphisms from a co-compact Fuchsian group to a cyclic group. The aim of this paper is to give an explicit and practical formula for the number of such epimorphisms. As a consequence, we obtain an `equivalent' form of the famous Harvey's theorem on the cyclic groups of automorphisms of compact Riemann surfaces. Our main tool is an explicit formula for the number of solutions of restricted linear congruence recently proved by Bibak et al. using properties of Ramanujan sums and of the finite Fourier transform of arithmetic functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.02154

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of graph theory (05C90) Model quantum field theories (81T10) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Periodic groups; locally finite groups (20F50) Applications of linear algebraic groups to the sciences (20G45) General structure theory for semigroups (20M10)

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