JournalsrsmupVol. 125pp. 157–171

Tropical Open Hurwitz Numbers

  • Benoît Bertrand

    Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

  • Erwan Brugallé

    Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

  • Grigory Mikhalkin

    Université de Genève, Switzerland
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Abstract

We give a tropical interpretation of Hurwitz numbers extending the one discovered in [CJM]. In addition we treat a generalization of Hurwitz numbers for surfaces with boundary which we call open Hurwitz numbers.

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Benoît Bertrand, Erwan Brugallé, Grigory Mikhalkin, Tropical Open Hurwitz Numbers. Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Padova 125 (2011), pp. 157–171

DOI 10.4171/RSMUP/125-10