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We prove that single $G$-weighted $\mathfrak{b}$-Hurwitz numbers with internal faces are computed by refined topological recursion on a rational spectral curve, for certain rational weights $G$. Consequently, the $\mathfrak{b}$-Hurwitz…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Nitin Kumar Chidambaram , Maciej Dołęga , Kento Osuga

We present a study of real Hurwitz numbers enumerating a special kind of real meromorphic functions, which we call simple framed purely real functions. We deduce partial differential equations of cut-and-join type for generating functions…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-12 Maxim Kazarian , Sergey Lando , Sergey Natanzon

Various generating functions of simple Hurwitz numbers of the projective line are known to satisfy many properties. They include a heat equation, the Eynard-Orantin topological recursion, an infinite-order differential equation called a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-06-05 Xiaojun Liu , Motohico Mulase , Adam Sorkin

We present a review of the spin Hurwitz numbers, which count the ramified coverings with spin structures. They are related to peculiar $Q$ Schur functions, which are actually related to characters of the Sergeev group. This allows one to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-10-15 A. D. Mironov , A. Yu Morozov , S. M. Natanzon , A. Yu Orlov

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

Parametric families in the centre ${\bf Z}({\bf C}[S_n])$ of the group algebra of the symmetric group are obtained by identifying the indeterminates in the generating function for Macdonald polynomials as commuting Jucys-Murphy elements.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-01-30 J. Harnad

A formula for the Hurwitz zeta function at the positive integers $k$, $\zeta(k,b)$, is created by solving the real and the imaginary parts separately and then combining them. A few different formulae for the Hurwitz zeta function are known…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Jose Risomar Sousa

We find a representation for the Maclaurin coefficients of the Hurwitz zeta-function in terms of semi-convergent series involving the Bernoulli polynomials and the Stirling numbers of the first kind. In particular, this gives a…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-09 Khristo Boyadzhiev

Monotone Hurwitz numbers were introduced by the authors as a combinatorially natural desymmetrization of the Hurwitz numbers studied in enumerative algebraic geometry. Over the course of several papers, we developed the structural theory of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-02 I. P. Goulden , Mathieu Guay-Paquet , Jonathan Novak

We introduce a new generalization of Stirling numbers of the second kind and analyze their properties, including generating functions, integral representations, and recurrence relations. These numbers are used to approximate Riemann zeta…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-09 Kamel Mezlini , Tahar Moumni , Najib Ouled Azaiez

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

The generating function of double Hurwitz numbers is known to become a tau function of the Toda hierarchy. The associated Lax and Orlov-Schulman operators turn out to satisfy a set of generalized string equations. These generalized string…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Kanehisa Takasaki

Hurwitz numbers are the Laurent coefficients of an elliptic function $\wp(u)$ of cyclotomic type, and they are natural generalization of the Bernoulli numbers. This paper gives new generalization of Bernoulli and Hurwitz numbers for higher…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yoshihiro Ônishi

The partition function for quantum weighted double Hurwitz numbers can be interpreted in terms of the energy distribution of a quantum Bose gas with vanishing fugacity. We compute the leading term of the partition function and the quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-07-21 J. Harnad , Janosch Ortmann

To distinguish the contributions to the generalized Hurwitz number of the source Riemann surface with different genus, we define the genus expanded cut-and-join operators by observing carefully the symplectic surgery and the gluing formulas…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-22 Quan Zheng

We give a natural definition of open Hurwitz numbers, where the weight of each ramified covering includes an integer parameter $N$ taken to the power that is equal to the number of boundary components of a Riemann surface with boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Alexandr Buryak , Ran J. Tessler , Mikhail Troshkin

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

Using non-archimedean q-integrals on Zp defined in [15, 16], we define a new Changhee q-Euler polynomials and numbers which are different from those of Kim [7] and Carlitz [2]. We define generating functions of multiple q-Euler numbers and…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Taekyun Kim , SAeog-Hoon Rim

We use algebraic methods to compute the simple Hurwitz numbers for arbitrary source and target Riemann surfaces. For an elliptic curve target, we reproduce the results previously obtained by string theorists. Motivated by the Gromov-Witten…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-25 Stefano Monni , Jun S. Song , Yun S. Song

In this paper, we prove that the generalized Br\'ezin-Gross-Witten tau-function is a hypergeometric solution of the BKP hierarchy with simple weight generating function. We claim that it describes a spin version of the strictly monotone…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Alexander Alexandrov