On the Hurwitz existence problem for branched covers of the projective line

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Main Authors: Ciliberto, Ciro, Knutsen, Andreas Leopold, Torelli, Sara
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Published: 2026
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author Ciliberto, Ciro
Knutsen, Andreas Leopold
Torelli, Sara
author_facet Ciliberto, Ciro
Knutsen, Andreas Leopold
Torelli, Sara
contents We give an alternative proof of the Hurwitz existence problem for branched covers of $\mathbb{P}^1$ in the case where the number of ramification points equals the number of branch points, that is, where all the ramification profiles are of the form $[e,1,\ldots,1]$ with $e \geq 2$.
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spellingShingle On the Hurwitz existence problem for branched covers of the projective line
Ciliberto, Ciro
Knutsen, Andreas Leopold
Torelli, Sara
Algebraic Geometry
We give an alternative proof of the Hurwitz existence problem for branched covers of $\mathbb{P}^1$ in the case where the number of ramification points equals the number of branch points, that is, where all the ramification profiles are of the form $[e,1,\ldots,1]$ with $e \geq 2$.
title On the Hurwitz existence problem for branched covers of the projective line
topic Algebraic Geometry
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18782