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On dessins d'enfants with equal supports

Complex Variables 2025-05-20 v1 Algebraic Geometry Number Theory

Abstract

For a Belyi function β:CP1CP1\beta:\mathbb C\mathbb P^1\rightarrow \mathbb C\mathbb P^1 ramified only over the points 1,1,-1,1,\infty, a corresponding ``dessin d'enfant'' Dβ\mathcal D_{\beta} is defined as the set β1([1,1])\beta^{-1}([-1,1]) considered as a bi-colored graph on the Riemann sphere whose white and black vertices are points of the sets β1{1}\beta^{-1}\{-1\} and β1{1}\beta^{-1}\{1\} correspondingly. Merely the set β1([1,1])\beta^{-1}([-1,1]) without a graph structure is called a support of Dβ\mathcal D_{\beta}. In this note, we solve the following problem: under what conditions different dessins Dβ1\mathcal D_{\beta_1} and Dβ2\mathcal D_{\beta_2} have equal supports?

Cite

@article{arxiv.2505.12420,
  title  = {On dessins d'enfants with equal supports},
  author = {Fedor Pakovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.12420},
  year   = {2025}
}
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