Hurwitz spaces of Galois coverings of P^1, whose Galois groups are Weyl groups

DOI10.1016/J.JALGEBRA.2006.01.008zbMATH Open1118.14034arXivmath/0508134OpenAlexW2048799579MaRDI QIDQ854911FDOQ854911

Vassil Kanev

Publication date: 7 December 2006

Published in: Journal of Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove the irreducibility of the Hurwitz spaces which parametrize Galois coverings of P^1 whose Galois group is an arbitrary Weyl group and the local monodromies are reflections. This generalizes a classical theorem due to Clebsch and Hurwitz.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0508134

zbMATH Keywords

Weyl groupbraid groupHurwitz space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Families, moduli of curves (algebraic) (14H10) Jacobians, Prym varieties (14H40) Coverings of curves, fundamental group (14H30)

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