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This survey grew out of notes accompanying a cycle of lectures at the workshop Modern Trends in Gromov-Witten Theory, in Hannover. The lectures are devoted to interactions between Hurwitz theory and Gromov-Witten theory, with a particular…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-14 Renzo Cavalieri

We study rational double Hurwitz cycles, i.e. loci of marked rational stable curves admitting a map to the projective line with assigned ramification profiles over two fixed branch points. Generalizing the phenomenon observed for double…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-05-21 Aaron Bertram , Renzo Cavalieri , Hannah Markwig

Hurwitz numbers enumerate branched morphisms between Riemannn surfaces with fixed numerical data. They represent important objects in enumerative geometry that are accessible by combinatorial techniques. In the past decade, many variants of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Sean Gearoid Fitzgerald , Marvin Anas Hahn , Síofra Kelly

Simple Hurwitz numbers enumerate branched morphisms between Riemann surfaces with fixed ramification data. In recent years, several variants of this notion for genus $0$ base curves have appeared in the literature. Among them are so-called…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-02 Marvin Anas Hahn , Jan-Willem M. van Ittersum , Felix Leid

We present several recent developments on ELSV-type formulae and topological recursion concerning Chiodo classes and several kind of Hurwitz numbers. The main results appeared in D. Lewanski, A. Popolitov, S. Shadrin, D. Zvonkine, "Chiodo…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2017-03-21 Danilo Lewanski

Hurwitz numbers with completed cycles are standard Hurwitz numbers with simple branch points replaced by completed cycles. In fact, simple branch points correspond to completed $2$-cycles. Okounkov and Pandharipande have established the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Ricky X. F. Chen , Zhen-Ran Wang

We extract a system of numerical invariants from logarithmic intersection theory on pluricanonical double ramification cycles, and show that these invariants exhibit a number of properties that are enjoyed by double Hurwitz numbers. Among…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Renzo Cavalieri , Hannah Markwig , Dhruv Ranganathan

We analyze Chiodo's formulas for the Chern classes related to the r-th roots of the suitably twisted integer powers of the canonical class on the moduli space of curves. The intersection numbers of these classes with psi-classes are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-22 Danilo Lewanski , Alexandr Popolitov , Sergey Shadrin , Dimitri Zvonkine

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

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

Polynomial-in-time algorithms for computing classical Hurwitz numbers were given in [4] based on the Pandharipande equation. The paritition function of double Hurwitz numbers was proved [21] to satisfy the 2-Toda hierarchy. In this paper,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Xiang Li

We prove quasi-polynomiality for monotone and strictly monotone orbifold Hurwitz numbers. The second enumerative problem is also known as enumeration of a special kind of Grothendieck's dessins d'enfants or $r$-hypermaps. These statements…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Reinier Kramer , Danilo Lewanski , Sergey Shadrin

This is the first of two papers on the uniform asymptotics for real double Hurwitz numbers with triple ramification. Real double Hurwitz numbers with triple ramification count the number of real ramified coverings of the complex projective…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Yanqiao Ding , Kui Li , Huan Liu , Dongfeng Yan

This manuscript recounts some of the author's contributions to algebraic and enumerative combinatorics. We have focused on two types of generalizations of bipartite maps, which are bipartite graphs embedded on surfaces. Maps are known to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-14 Valentin Bonzom

We study the structures of ordinary simple Hurwitz numbers and monotone Hurwitz numbers with varying genus. More precisely, we prove that when the ramification type is fixed and the genus is treated as a variable, the connected monotone…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Chenglang Yang

We study spin Hurwitz numbers, which count ramified covers of the Riemann sphere with a sign coming from a theta characteristic. These numbers are known to be related to Gromov-Witten theory of K\"ahler surfaces and to representation theory…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Alessandro Giacchetto , Reinier Kramer , Danilo Lewański

We analyze a new family of weighted double Hurwitz numbers that was introduced as a notable example in the context of the $x-y$ duality for logarithmic topological recursion. We use this family to systematically demonstrate, refine and…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Alexander Alexandrov , Boris Bychkov , Petr Dunin-Barkowski , Maxim Kazarian , Sergey Shadrin

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 define the dimension 2g-1 Faber-Hurwitz Chow/homology classes on the moduli space of curves, parametrizing curves expressible as branched covers of P^1 with given ramification over infinity and sufficiently many fixed ramification points…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ian P. Goulden , David M. Jackson , Ravi Vakil

This article introduces mixed double Hurwitz numbers, which interpolate combinatorially between the classical double Hurwitz numbers studied by Okounkov and the monotone double Hurwitz numbers introduced recently by Goulden, Guay-Paquet and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-21 I. P. Goulden , Mathieu Guay-Paquet , Jonathan Novak