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The Hurwitz existence problem and the prime-degree conjecture: A computational perspective

2025/12/06 by Wang, Yiru, Li, Bingqian, Zhou, Yi +4
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Cryptography and Residue Arithmetic #Polynomial and algebraic computation #Analytic Number Theory Research

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2512.06545

Abstract

We investigate the Hurwitz existence problem from a computational viewpoint. Leveraging the symmetric-group algorithm by Zheng and building upon implementations originally developed by Baroni, we achieve a complete and non-redundant enumeration of all non-realizable partition triples for positive integers up to 31. These results are further categorized into four types according to their underlying mathematical structure; it is observed that nearly nine-tenths of them can be explained by known theoretical results. As an application, we verify the prime-degree conjecture for all primes less than 32. In light of the exponential memory growth inherent in existing computational approaches -- which limits their feasibility at higher degrees -- we propose a novel software architecture designed to stabilize memory usage, thereby facilitating further detection of exceptional cases in the Hurwitz existence problem. The complete dataset of non-realizable partition triples, along with our implementation, will been made public on GitHub.

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