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Is the number of ramified coverings of given degree of a curve with prescribed branch divisor finite?
Let Y be a smooth projective curve over C and prescribe a branch divisor B on Y. I want to know if the number of coverings of Y of fixed degree and branched along B is finite. If so, why? Or, where is ...
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Is this function field extension a Galois extension ?
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Let $X$ be a variety over an algebraically closed field of null characteristic, and let $C$ be a (regular if you want) curve included in $X$.
Consider $X'$ the normalization of $...