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MR 2944715 Reviewed Zhu S. On the recursion formula for double Hurwitz numbers. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (2012) 140, no. 11, …
2013
Let $\mu = (\mu_{1}, \mu_{2}, \ldots, \mu_{m})$ and $\nu = (\nu_{1}, \nu_{2}, \ldots, \nu_{n})$ be two partitions of a positive integer $d$. In this paper, the author considers degree $d$ branched coverings of $\mathbb{P}^{1}$ with at most two special points, $0$ and $\infty$. Specifically, the purpose of the author is to give a recursion formula for double Hurwitz numbers $H^{g}_{\mu, \nu}$ by the cut-join analysis. Here, $H^{g}_{\mu, \nu}$ denotes the number of genus $g$ branched covers of $\mathbb{P}^{1}$ with branching date corresponding to $\mu$ and $\nu$ over $0$ and $\infty$, respectively. Furthemore, as application, the author gets a polynomial identity for linear Goulden-Jackson-Va…
MR 2827979 Reviewed Lando, S. K. Hurwitz numbers: on the edge between combinatorics and geometry. Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathem…
2012
Object of study in this paper are the Hurwitz numbers. They were introduced by Hurwitz in the end of nineteenth century and still they are of great interest. The Hurwitz numbers are important in topology because they enumerate ramified coverings of two-dimensional surfaces, but not only. The author observes that their importance in modern research is mainly due to their connections with the geometry of the moduli space of curves. Moreover, they are of interest in mathematical physics and group theory. The purpose of this paper is to describe the progress made in the last couple of decades in understanding Hurwitz numbers.