The irreducibility of certain pure-cycle Hurwitz spaces

DOI10.1353/AJM.0.0031zbMATH Open1161.14021arXivmath/0609118OpenAlexW2157345662MaRDI QIDQ3596774FDOQ3596774

Authors: Fu Liu, Brian Osserman 

Publication date: 9 February 2009

Published in: American Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study "pure-cycle" Hurwitz spaces, parametrizing covers of the projective line having only one ramified point over each branch point. We start with the case of genus-0 covers, using a combination of limit linear series theory and group theory to show that these spaces are always irreducible. In the case of four branch points, we also compute the associated Hurwitz numbers. Finally, we give a conditional result in the higher-genus case, requiring at least 3g simply branched points. These results have equivalent formulations in group theory, and in this setting complement results of Conway-Fried-Parker-Volklein.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609118

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zbMATH Keywords

Hurwitz spacescovering of curves

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Riemann surfaces; Weierstrass points; gap sequences (14H55) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30)

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