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We provide a direct correspondence between the $b$-Hurwitz numbers with $b=1$ from \cite{ChapuyDolega}, and twisted Hurwtiz numbers from \cite{TwistedHurwitz}. This provides a description of real coverings of the sphere with ramification on…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Yurii Burman , Raphaël Fesler

We introduce stable tropical curves and use these to count covers of the $p$-adic projective line of fixed degree and ramification types by Mumford curves in terms of tropical Hurwitz numbers. Our counts depend on the branch loci of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2008-06-05 Patrick Erik Bradley

Consider a pair consisting of an abstract tropical curve and an effective divisor from the linear system associated to $k$ times the canonical divisor for $k \in \mathbb{Z}_{\geq 1}$. In this article we give a purely combinatorial criterion…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Felix Röhrle , Johannes Schwab

Numerical equivalence of algebraic cycles is defined abstractly by intersection numbers. Classically, for smooth complex proper toric varieties, the quotients by numerical equivalence with rational coefficients can be described…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Ryota Mikami

We introduce tropical complexes, as an enrichment of the dual complex of a degeneration with additional data from non-transverse intersection numbers. We define cycles, divisors, and linear equivalence on tropical complexes, analogous both…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Dustin Cartwright

Double Hurwitz numbers enumerate branched covers of $\mathbb{CP}^1$ with prescribed ramification over two points and simple ramification elsewhere. In contrast to the single case, their underlying geometry is not well understood. In…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Gaëtan Borot , Norman Do , Maksim Karev , Danilo Lewański , Ellena Moskovsky

Motivated by the realizability problem for principal tropical divisors with a fixed ramification profile, we explore the tropical geometry of the double ramification locus in $\mathcal{M}_{g,n}$.There are two ways to define a tropical…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-15 Martin Ulirsch , Dmitry Zakharov

We consider the problem of defining and computing real analogs of polynomial Hurwitz numbers, in other words, the problem of counting properly normalized real polynomials with fixed ramification profiles over real branch points. We show…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-12-12 Ilia Itenberg , Dimitri Zvonkine

We give an alternative proof of the Hurwitz existence problem for branched covers of $\mathbb{P}^1$ in the case where the number of ramification points equals the number of branch points, that is, where all the ramification profiles are of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Ciro Ciliberto , Andreas Leopold Knutsen , Sara Torelli

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

By using tensor analysis, we find a connection between normed algebras and the parallelizability of the spheres S$^1$, S$^3$ and S$^7.$ In this process, we discovered the analogue of Hurwitz theorem for curved spaces and a geometrical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. A. Nieto , L. N. Alejo-Armenta

The classical Hurwitz numbers which count coverings of a complex curve have an analog when the curve is endowed with a theta characteristic. These "spin Hurwitz numbers", recently studied by Eskin, Okounkov and Pandharipande, are…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-12-12 Junho Lee , Thomas H. Parker

We investigate the realizability of balanced functions on tropical curves, establishing new sufficient criteria for superabundant functions on genus two curves, analogous to the well-spacedness condition in genus one. We find that…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-29 Mia Lam , Chi Kin Ng , Dhruv Ranganathan

Tyomkin's correspondence theorem states the equality of counts of rational curves of fixed homology class in a toric surface satisfying point and cross-ratio conditions with their tropical counterparts. Such correspondence theorems allow us…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Parisa Ebrahimian

Single Hurwitz numbers enumerate branched covers of the Riemann sphere with specified genus, prescribed ramification over infinity, and simple branching elsewhere. They exhibit a remarkably rich structure. In particular, they arise as…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Norman Do , Maksim Karev

Tropical geometry is a piecewise linear "shadow" of algebraic geometry. It allows for the computation of several cohomological invariants of an algebraic variety. In particular, its application to enumerative algebraic geometry led to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-12 Florian Block

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

The Hurwitz space is a compactification of the space of rational functions of a given degree. We study the intersection of various strata of this space with its boundary. A study of the cohomology ring of the Hurwitz space then allows us to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Dimitri Zvonkine

In general, 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. In this paper, we initiate the study of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2015-11-10 Norman Do , Maksim Karev

Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a Hurwitz space that parametrises holomorphic maps to $\mathbb{P}^1$. Abramovich, Corti and Vistoli, building on work of Harris and Mumford, describe a compactification $\overline{\mathcal{H}}$ with a natural boundary…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Darragh Glynn