Transitive factorizations of permutations and geometry

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Authors David M. Jackson, I. P. Goulden

Publication date 18 May 2017

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.7568

zbMATH Keywords

branched coversenumeration of graph embeddingsmoduli spaces of curvesrandom matrices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) Gromov-Witten invariants, quantum cohomology, Gopakumar-Vafa invariants, Donaldson-Thomas invariants (algebro-geometric aspects) (14N35) Random matrices (algebraic aspects) (15B52) Low-dimensional topology of special (e.g., branched) coverings (57M12)

Abstract: We give an account of our work on transitive factorizations of permutations. The work has had impact upon other areas of mathematics such as the enumeration of graph embeddings, random matrices, branched covers, and the moduli spaces of curves. Aspects of these seemingly unrelated areas are seen to be related in a unifying view from the perspective of algebraic combinatorics. At several points this work has intertwined with Richard Stanley's in significant ways.

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