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Hurwitz algebras are unital composition algebras widely known in algebra and mathematical physics for their useful applications. In this paper, inspired by works of Lesenby and Hitzer, we show how to embed all seven Hurwitz algebras…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Daniele Corradetti , Richard Clawson , Klee Irwin

We give a new proof of the cut-and-join equation for the monotone Hurwitz numbers, derived first by Goulden, Guay-Paquet, and Novak. Our proof in particular uses a combinatorial technique developed by Han. The main interest in this…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Petr Dunin-Barkowski , Reinier Kramer , Alexandr Popolitov , Sergey Shadrin

In this article we describe cell decompositions of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces and their relationship to a Hurwitz problem. The cells possess natural linear structures and with respect to this they can be described as rational…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-09-15 Paul Norbury

We define 2-decompositions of ribbon graphs, which generalise 2-sums and tensor products of graphs. We give formulae for the Bollobas-Riordan polynomial of such a 2-decomposition, and derive the classical Brylawski formula for the Tutte…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-01 Stephen Huggett , Iain Moffatt

Decomposing an algebraic variety into irreducible or equidimensional components is a fundamental task in classical algebraic geometry and has various applications in modern geometry engineering. Several researchers studied the problem and…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2010-12-07 Zhenyi Ji , Yongbin Li

Generalized Hurwitz theorem states that there are fifteen composition algebras for any given field: seven unital, six para-unital, and two non-unital algebras. In this article we explore the recovery of such algebras from 3D Geometric…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2024-03-20 Daniele Corradetti

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

The Littlewood decomposition for partitions is a well-known bijection between partitions and pairs of $t$-core and $t$-quotient partitions. This decomposition can be described in several ways, such as the $t$-abacus method of James or the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Hyunsoo Cho , Eunmi Kim , Ae Ja Yee

A mathematical method for constructing fractal curves and surfaces, termed the $p\lambda n$ fractal decomposition, is presented. It allows any function to be split into a finite set of fractal discontinuous functions whose sum is equal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-12-15 Vladimir Garcia-Morales

Topology is an important determinant of the behavior of a great number of condensed-matter systems, but until recently has played a minor role in elasticity. We develop a theory for the deformations of a class of twisted non-Euclidean…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-26 Carlos E. Moguel-Lehmer , Christian D. Santangelo

We review Heisenberg homology of configurations in once bounded surfaces and extend the construction to the regular thickening of a finite graph with ribbon structure.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Christian Blanchet

The Hurwitz form of a variety is the discriminant that characterizes linear spaces of complementary dimension which intersect the variety in fewer than degree many points. We study computational aspects of the Hurwitz form, relate this to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Bernd Sturmfels

This paper presents an integer decomposition method. The method first writes an integer as a polynomial with 2 as variable that its coefficients are zero or one. Then, suppose that an integer is decomposed into product of such two…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Puyun Gao

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

A univariate polynomial f over a field is decomposable if it is the composition f = g(h) of two polynomials g and h whose degree is at least 2. We determine the dimension (over an algebraically closed field) of the set of decomposables, and…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Joachim von zur Gathen

q-Supernomial coefficients are generalizations of the q-binomial coefficients. They can be defined as the coefficients of the Hall-Littlewood symmetric function in a product of the complete symmetric functions or the elementary symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Anne Schilling

The question is raised whether the unique decomposition of the physical Hilbert space, as emerging in the refined algebraic quantization of a constrained system, may be understood in terms of the old Klein-Gordon type quantization.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Franz Embacher

Motivated by results for the HCIZ integral in Part I of this paper, we study the structure of monotone Hurwitz numbers, which are a desymmetrized version of classical Hurwitz numbers. We prove a number of results for monotone Hurwitz…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-07 Ian P. Goulden , Mathieu Guay-Paquet , Jonathan Novak

The Borel-Weil-Bott theorem can be used to decompose the cohomology of twisted sheaves of holomorphic forms on the complex Grassmannian into irreducible representations of the general linear group. By analyzing this decomposition, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Fern Gossow , Andrew Huchala

Hurwitz numbers are a weighted count of degree d ramified covers of curves with specified ramification profiles at marked points on the codomain curve. Isomorphism classes of these covers can be included as a dense open set in a moduli…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-11-13 Brian Katz