The closed formula conjecture for genus-one ramification polynomials

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For m≥1m\ge 1, let eie_i denote the ii-th elementary symmetric function in the variables used to define fm(1)f_m^{(1)}. The closed formula conjecture for genus-one ramification polynomials.

fm(1)=124(e1m−e1m−1−∑i=2m(i−2)!eie1m−i).f^{(1)}_m=\frac{1}{24}\left(e_1^m-e_1^{m-1}-\sum_{i=2}^m(i-2)!e_i e_1^{m-i}\right).

This is a closed-form strengthening of the genus-one polynomial pattern inferred from the Appendix, analogous to the sphere formula fm(0)=e1m−3f_m^{(0)}=e_1^{m-3}. The source provides no resolution.

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P. P. Goulden, D. M. Jackson and A. Vainshtein, “The number of ramified coverings of the sphere by the torus and surfaces of higher genera”, arXiv:math/9902125 (1999).

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