Goulden–Jackson's structural conjecture for higher-genus Hurwitz generating series

From papers

Let

ϕi(z,p)=n1nn+in!pnzn,\phi_i(z,p)=\sum_{n\geq 1}\frac{n^{n+i}}{n!}p_nz^n,

where ii is an integer, and let ss be the unique formal power series in xx and pp satisfying

s=xeϕ0(s,p).s=xe^{\phi_0(s,p)}.

For the Hurwitz generating series Hg(x,p)H_g(x,p), and for a partition θ\theta with size θ=n|\theta|=n and length l(θ)l(\theta), Goulden–Jackson's conjecture. For g2g\geq 2,

Hg(x,p)=e=2g15g51(1ϕ1(s,p))en=e1e+g1θn\l(θ)=e2(g1)Kθg#Aut(θ)ϕθ1(s,p)ϕθ2(s,p)H_g(x,p)=\sum_{e=2g-1}^{5g-5}\frac{1}{(1-\phi_1(s,p))^e}\sum_{n=e-1}^{e+g-1}\sum_{\substack{\theta\models n\l(\theta)=e-2(g-1)}}\frac{K^g_\theta}{\#\operatorname{Aut}(\theta)}\phi_{\theta_1}(s,p)\phi_{\theta_2}(s,p)\dots

for some rational numbers KθgK^g_\theta. Here HgH_g is the genus-gg part of the connected Hurwitz generating series, and the lower-genus cases H0H_0 and H1H_1 are already given separately. The conjecture predicts a precise rational form for all remaining genera, with coefficients depending only on gg and θ\theta.

Progress summary

Nothing recorded yet. Refresh searches the literature and the public web for attempts on this problem, and writes the first summary here.

Sources & referencesView supporting material

Primary source

Ian Goulden, David Jackson and Ravi Vakil, “The Gromov-Witten potential of a point, Hurwitz numbers, and Hodge integrals”, arXiv:math/9910004 (1999).

Solutions 0

No solutions have been posted yet.