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We are building a theory of simple Hurwitz numbers for the reflection groups B and D parallel to the classical theory for the symmetric group. We also study analogs of the cut-and-join operators. An algebraic description of Hurwitz numbers…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-20 Raphaël Fesler

We consider weighted double Hurwitz numbers, with the weight given by arbitrary rational function times an exponent of the completed cycles. Both special singularities are arbitrary, with the lengths of cycles controlled by formal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Boris Bychkov , Petr Dunin-Barkowski , Maxim Kazarian , Sergey Shadrin

We introduce a natural structure of a semigroup (isomorphic to a factorization semigroup of the unity in the symmetric group) on the set of irreducible components of Hurwitz space of marked degree $d$ coverings of $\mathbb P^1$ of fixed…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-18 Vik. S. Kulikov

In this paper, we study a problem that is in a sense a reversal of the Hurwitz counting problem. The Hurwitz problem asks: for a generic target -- $\mathbb P^1$ with a list of $n$ points $q_1,\dots,q_n\in \mathbb P^1$ -- and partitions…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Michael Mueller

We define the double Gromov-Witten invariants of Hirzebruch surfaces in analogy with double Hurwitz numbers, and we prove that they satisfy a piecewise polynomiality property analogous to their 1-dimensional counterpart. Furthermore we show…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-12-02 Federico Ardila , Erwan Brugalle

Hurwitz numbers enumerate branched morphisms between Riemann surfaces. For a fixed elliptic target, Hurwitz numbers are intimately related to mirror symmetry following work of Dijkgraaf. In recent work of Chapuy and Dolega a new variant of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Marvin Anas Hahn , Hannah Markwig

We prove the conjecture of Do and Karev that the monotone orbifold Hurwitz numbers satisfy the Chekhov-Eynard-Orantin topological recursion.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Reinier Kramer , Alexandr Popolitov , Sergey Shadrin

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

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

In this paper we revisit several recent results on monotone and strictly monotone Hurwitz numbers, providing new proofs. In particular, we use various versions of these numbers to discuss methods of derivation of quantum spectral curves…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-22 A. Alexandrov , D. Lewanski , S. Shadrin

This article is an extended version of preprint math.AG/9902104. We find an explicit formula for the number of topologically different ramified coverings of a sphere by a genus g surface with only one complicated branching point in terms of…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-31 T. Ekedahl , S. Lando , M. Shapiro , A. Vainshtein

New Frobenius structures on Hurwitz spaces are found. A Hurwitz space is considered as a real manifold; therefore the number of coordinates is twice as large as the number of coordinates on Hurwitzs Frobenius manifolds of Dubrovin. Simple…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vasilisa Shramchenko

Hurwitz numbers count ramified covers of a Riemann surface with prescribed monodromy. As such, they are purely combinatorial objects. Tautological classes, on the other hand, are distinguished classes in the intersection ring of the moduli…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Aaron Bertram , Renzo Cavalieri , Gueorgui Todorov

In this paper we study various properties of the double ramification hierarchy, an integrable hierarchy of hamiltonian PDEs introduced in [Bur15] using intersection theory of the double ramification cycle in the moduli space of stable…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-26 A. Buryak , P. Rossi

We perform a key step towards the proof of Zvonkine's conjectural $r$-ELSV formula that relates Hurwitz numbers with completed $(r+1)$-cycles to the geometry of the moduli spaces of the $r$-spin structures on curves: we prove the…

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

We are extending results from \cite{B-Hurwitz} by building a parallel theory of simple Hurwitz numbers for the reflection groups $G(m,1,n)$. We also study analogs of the cut-and-join operators. An algebraic description as well as a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Raphaël Fesler , Denis Gorodkov , Maksim Karev

In this paper, we define tropical analogues of real Hurwitz numbers, i.e. numbers of covers of surfaces with compatible involutions satisfying prescribed ramification properties. We prove a correspondence theorem stating the equality of the…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-26 Hannah Markwig , Johannes Rau

The construction of hypergeometric $2D$ Toda $\tau$-functions as generating functions for weighted Hurwitz numbers is extended to multispecies families. Both the enumerative geometrical significance of multispecies weighted Hurwitz numbers,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-06-26 J. Harnad

We define a new Hurwitz problem which is essentially a small core of the simple Hurwitz problem. The corresponding Hurwitz numbers have simpler formulae, satisfy effective recursion relations and determine the simple Hurwitz numbers. We…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2013-12-31 Norman Do , Paul Norbury

In our previous work [CMS24] we defined a new class of enumerative invariants called $k$-leaky double Hurwitz descendants, generalizing both descendant integrals of double ramification cycles and $k$-leaky double Hurwitz numbers. Here, we…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Renzo Cavalieri , Hannah Markwig , Johannes Schmitt