Questions tagged [branched-covers]
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Thurston universe gates in knots: which invariant is it?
Today I discovered this nice video of a lecture by Thurston:
https://youtu.be/daplYX6Oshc
in which he explains how a knot can be turned into a "fabric for universes". For example, the unknot ...
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Monodromy Representation on $H_1$ of Elliptic Curve
I'm reading this post by Charles Siegel on Monodromy Representations
and there is a construction in example a not unterstand.
We look at the family $y^2z=x(x-z)(x-\lambda z)$ of projective elliptic
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How to enumerate branched covers of $\mathbb{P}^1$ branched over $0,1$ and $\infty$?
Setup: Let $u:\Sigma \to X$ be a holomorphic map of closed Riemann surfaces with branch points $P \subset X$. For each branch point $p \in P$, we have a partition $\Gamma_p$ of $\text{deg}(u)$ given ...
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Unibranch points (definition for varieties over arbitrary field)
In David Mumford's book Algebraic Geometry I, Complex Projective Varieties
treating mainly complex varieties as objects of interest on page
43 he defines what is a topologically unibranch variety $X$ ...
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Galois theory of ramified coverings vs classical Galois theory
That's an exact copy of my former MSE question I asked a couple of weeks ago and unfortunately not got the answer I was looking for.
The question adresses reuns' answer in this thread: Algebraic ...
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Is there a Galois theory for deformations of curves?
I have some general questions about the deformations of Galois covers of curves. Suppose we are given a $G$-Galois cover $k[[z]]/k[[x]]$, where $k$ is algebraically closed of characteristic $p>0$. ...
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Pre-images of Seifert surfaces are incompressible?
Consider a knot $K \subset S^3$ and let $M_K$ be the associated double branched cover. The pre-image $S$ of a Seifert surface is a surface without boundary inside $M_K$.
Can $S$ be incompressible? If ...
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moduli stack of double covers of $\mathbb{P}^1$ with one marked point
I am trying to improve my moderate knowledge of moduli spaces/stacks by examining the moduli stack of stable double covers of $\mathbb{P}^1$ with one marked point.
My idea is to ignore the stack ...
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Monodromy representation of elementary simple covers
Let $X$, $Y$ be smooth, connected, compact manifolds (for instance, projective varieties) and $f \colon X \longrightarrow Y$ be a finite, branched cover of degree $n$, with branch locus $B \subset Y$. ...
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Constructing ramified covers with prescribed multiplicities at ramification points
Let $Y$ be a smooth projective curve defined over number field $K$. Let $P_1,\dots ,P_m$ be some $K$-points to which we will associate "multiplicities" $m_i\in\{ 2,3,\dots \}$ for $i=1,\dots ,m$. The ...
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Cohomology of ramified double cover of $\mathbb P^n$ (reference)
Let $X\rightarrow \mathbb P^n_{\mathbb C}$ be a double cover ramified over a smooth hypersurface $B$ of degre $2d$. In the case of hypersurfaces of $\mathbb P^n$ one can determine the integral ...
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What is the preimage of a braid in a covering space branched over the braid?
For a knot $K\subset \mathbb{S}^3$, one can construct the covering space branched over that knot by assigning elements of the symmetric group $S_n$ to each arc of the knot. You can find the knot group ...
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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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Two ways to look at a double cover of the projective line
Let $f:L\rightarrow \mathbb P^1_{\mathbb C}$ be the line bundle associated to the invertible sheaf $\mathcal O_{\mathbb P^1}(2)$, $\phi=(X_0-X_1)^3X_0\in H^0(\mathbb P^1, \mathcal O_{\mathbb P^1}(4))$ ...
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Uniformizing variable for branched covering of the Riemann sphere
Suppose I have a function $Q(z)$ of a complex variable $z\in\mathbb P^1$, possessing square root type branch points at the positions $\left\{z_i\right\}_{i=1}^{2M}$. I know that the Riemann surface $\...
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