Galois Covers of Moduli of Curves

Compositio Mathematica

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 171-191

  Boggi, M ^a   Pikaart, M ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fundamental group; Galois covers; Moduli of curves; Riemann surface; Teichm ller theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007013658     PISSN: 0010437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1001731524036     Document Type: Article

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