Degree three spin Hurwitz numbers

2012/05/07 by Junho Lee, Lee, Junho
Mathematics · #FOS: Mathematics #Symplectic Geometry (math.SG) #math.SG

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1205.1491

typos fixed, references added, motivation and comment on higher degree cases added

arxiv created 2012/09/16 · arxiv updated 2012/09/18

Abstract

Recently, Gunningham \citeG calculated all spin Hurwitz numbers in terms of combinatorics of Sergeev algebra. In this paper, we use a spin curve degeneration to obtain a recursion formula for degree three spin Hurwitz numbers.

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