{ "id": "2403.17167", "version": "v1", "published": "2024-03-25T20:33:03.000Z", "updated": "2024-03-25T20:33:03.000Z", "title": "Monodromy groups of indecomposable coverings of bounded genus", "authors": [ "Danny Neftin", "Michael E. Zieve" ], "categories": [ "math.AG", "math.GR", "math.NT" ], "abstract": "For each nonnegative integer $g$, we classify the ramification types and monodromy groups of indecomposable coverings of complex curves $f: X\\to Y$ where $X$ has genus $g$, under the hypothesis that $n:=\\deg(f)$ is sufficiently large and the monodromy group is not $A_n$ or $S_n$. This proves a conjecture of Guralnick and several conjectures of Guralnick and Shareshian.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2024-03-25T20:33:03.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "11G99", "14E20", "20B15", "12F10" ], "keywords": [ "monodromy group", "indecomposable coverings", "bounded genus", "complex curves", "ramification types" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }