Shimura curves in the Prym loci of ramified double covers

We study Shimura curves of PEL type in the space of polarized abelian varieties [Formula: see text] generically contained in the ramified Prym locus. We generalize to ramified double covers, the construction done in [E. Colombo, P. Frediani, A. Ghigi and M. Penegini, Shimura curves in the Prym locus, Commun. Contemp. Math. 21(2) (2019) 1850009] in the unramified case and in the case of two ramification points. Namely, we construct families of double covers which are compatible with a fixed group action on the base curve. We only consider the case of one-dimensional families and where the quotient of the base curve by the group is [Formula: see text]. Using computer algebra we obtain 184 Shimura curves contained in the (ramified) Prym loci.

Monotone Classes of Dendrites

Continua X and Y are monotone equivalent if there exist monotone onto maps f : X→ Y and g: Y →X. A continuum X is isolated with respect to monotone maps if every continuumthat is monotone equivalent to X must also be homeomorphic to X. In this paper we show that a dendrite X is isolated with respect to monotone maps if and only if the set of ramification points of X is finite. In this way we fully characterize the classes of dendrites that are monotone isolated.

TOPOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF GENERIC REAL RATIONAL FUNCTIONS

To any real rational function with generic ramification points we assign a combinatorial object, called a garden, which consists of a weighted labeled directed planar chord diagram and of a set of weighted rooted trees each corresponding to a face of the diagram. We prove that any garden corresponds to a generic real rational function, and that equivalent functions have equivalent gardens.

Megamaps: Construction and Examples

International audience We consider the usual model of hypermaps or, equivalently, bipartite maps, represented by pairs of permutations that act transitively on a set of edges E. The specific feature of our construction is the fact that the elements of E are themselves (or are labelled by) rather complicated combinatorial objects, namely, the 4-constellations, while the permutations defining the hypermap originate from an action of the Hurwitz braid group on these 4-constellations.The motivation for the whole construction is the combinatorial representation of the parameter space of the ramified coverings of the Riemann sphere having four ramification points.