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Toda equations for Hurwitz numbers

Algebraic Geometry 2007-05-23 v1 Mathematical Physics Combinatorics math.MP Representation Theory

Abstract

We consider ramified coverings of P^1 with arbitrary ramification type over 0 and infinity and simple ramifications elsewhere and prove that the generating function for the numbers of such coverings is a tau-function for the Toda lattice hierarchy of Ueno and Takasaki.

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@article{arxiv.math/0004128,
  title  = {Toda equations for Hurwitz numbers},
  author = {Andrei Okounkov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0004128},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages