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Two methods of constructing 2D Toda $\tau$-functions that are generating functions for certain geometrical invariants of a combinatorial nature are related. The first involves generation of paths in the Cayley graph of the symmetric group…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-01 Mathieu Guay-Paquet , J. Harnad

Hurwitz theory provides a large variety of enumerative problems related to algebraic geometry, mathematical physics, and combinatorics. We give a general framework to approach the large genus asymptotics of Hurwitz theory using only…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Davide Accadia , Danilo Lewański , Giulio Ruzza

This manuscript studies a special case of the Hurwitz enumeration problem: for branched covers from genus g compact Riemann surface to the Riemann sphere, with three branch points, and require the branching data at one of the branch points…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yi Song

Hurwitz numbers count ramified genus $g$, degree $d$ coverings of the projective line with with fixed branch locus and fixed ramification data. Double Hurwitz numbers count such covers, where we fix two special profiles over $0$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-11 Marvin Anas Hahn

Hurwitz numbers count branched covers of the Riemann sphere with specified ramification, or equivalently, transitive permutation factorizations in the symmetric group with specified cycle types. Monotone Hurwitz numbers count a restricted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-15 I. P. Goulden , Mathieu Guay-Paquet , Jonathan Novak

We present the multi-matrix models that are the generating functions for branched covers of the complex projective line ramified over $n$ fixed points $z_i$, $i=1,\dots,n$, (generalized Grotendieck's dessins d'enfants) of fixed genus,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Jan Ambjorn , Leonid Chekhov

We consider special series in ratios of the Schur functions which are defined by integers $\textsc{f}\ge 0$ and $\textsc{e} \le 2$, and also by the set of $3k$ parameters $n_i,q_i,t_i,\,i=1,..., k$. These series may be presented in form of…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2015-01-30 S. M. Natanzon , A. Yu. Orlov

We derive a closed-form expression for all genus 1 Hurwitz numbers, and give a simple new graph-theoretic interpretation of Hurwitz numbers in genus 0 and 1. (Hurwitz numbers essentially count irreducible genus g covers of the sphere, with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ravi Vakil

Classical Hurwitz numbers count branched covers of the Riemann sphere with prescribed ramification data, or equivalently, factorisations in the symmetric group with prescribed cycle structure data. Monotone Hurwitz numbers restrict the…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-08-19 Norman Do , Alastair Dyer , Daniel V. Mathews

This work concerns the semiclassical asymptotics of quantum weighted double Hurwitz numbers. We compute the leading term of the partition function for three versions of the quantum weighted Hurwitz numbers, as well as lower order…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-01 J. Harnad , Janosch Ortmann

In this paper, we study a certain type of Hurwitz numbers which count branched covers over the Riemann sphere admitting several branch points with fixed ramification types, one branch point with a fixed number of preimages, and one branch…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Zhiyuan Wang , Chenglang Yang

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…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Andrei Okounkov

We derive an algorithm to produce explicit formulas for certain generating functions of double Hurwitz numbers. These formulas generalize a formula of Goulden, Jackson and Vakil for one part double Hurwitz numbers. Immediate consequences…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-08-20 Paul Johnson

This work concerns both the semiclassical and zero temperature asymptotics of quantum weighted double Hurwitz numbers. The partition function for quantum weighted double Hurwitz numbers can be interpreted in terms of the energy distri-…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 J. Harnad , Janosch Ortmann

We introduce and investigate a family of tau-functions of the 2D Toda hierarchy, which is a natural generalization of the hypergeometric family associated with Hurwitz numbers. For this family we prove a skew Schur function expansion…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Alexander Alexandrov

The KP $\tau$-function of hypergeometric type serving as generating function for quantum weighted Hurwitz numbers is used to compute the Baker function and the corresponding adapted basis elements, expressed as absolutely convergent Laurent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 J. Harnad , B. Runov

Hurwitz numbers count branched covers of the Riemann sphere with specified ramification data, or equivalently, transitive permutation factorizations in the symmetric group with specified cycle types. Monotone Hurwitz numbers count a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-15 I. P. Goulden , Mathieu Guay-Paquet , Jonathan Novak

In this paper, we discuss the properties of the generating functions of spin Hurwitz numbers. In particular, for spin Hurwitz numbers with arbitrary ramification profiles, we construct the weighed sums which are given by Orlov's…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Alexander Alexandrov , Sergey Shadrin

In this paper, we aim to provide an accessible survey to various formulae for calculating single Hurwitz numbers. Single Hurwitz numbers count certain classes of meromorphic functions on complex algebraic curves and have a rich geometric…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Jared Ongaro

We give a bijective proof of Hurwitz formula for the number of simple branched coverings of the sphere by itself. Our approach extends to double Hurwitz numbers and yields new properties for them. In particular we prove for double Hurwitz…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-27 Enrica Duchi , Dominique Poulalhon , Gilles Schaeffer