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Irreducible Components of Hurwitz Spaces of Coverings with Two Special Fibers

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In this paper we prove new results of irreducibility for Hurwitz spaces of coverings whose monodromy group is a Weyl group of type B d and whose local monodromies are all reflections except two.

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Vetro, F. Irreducible Components of Hurwitz Spaces of Coverings with Two Special Fibers. Mediterr. J. Math. 10, 1151–1170 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00009-013-0256-2

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