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

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Let

ϕi(z,p)=∑n≥1nn+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 g≥2g\geq 2,

Hg(x,p)=∑e=2g−15g−51(1−ϕ1(s,p))e∑n=e−1e+g−1∑θ⊨n\l(θ)=e−2(g−1)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.

References

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).

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