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Toda equations for Hurwitz numbers

Andrei Okounkov

math.AGarXiv:math/0004128

Abstract

We consider ramified coverings of P1 with arbitrary ramification type over 0 and infinity and simple ramifications elsewhere and prove that the generating function for the numbers of such coverings is a tau-function for the Toda lattice hierarchy of Ueno and Takasaki.

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