Asymptotics of numbers of branched coverings of a torus and volumes of moduli spaces of holomorphic differentials

Inventiones Mathematicae

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 59-103

  Eskin, Alex ^a   Okounkov, Andrei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0035621503     PISSN: 00209910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002220100142     Document Type: Article

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