Big monodromy for higher Prym representations
Algebraic Geometry
2025-10-14 v2 Geometric Topology
Abstract
Let be a cover of an orientable surface of genus g by an orientable surface of genus g', branched at n points, with Galois group H. Such a cover induces a virtual action of the mapping class group of a genus g surface with n+1 marked points on . When g is large in terms of the group H, we calculate precisely the connected monodromy group of this action. The methods are Hodge-theoretic and rely on a "generic Torelli theorem with coefficients."
Cite
@article{arxiv.2401.13906,
title = {Big monodromy for higher Prym representations},
author = {Aaron Landesman and Daniel Litt and Will Sawin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.13906},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Updated with minor changes incorporated in published version