Classification of connected triples in small degrees #
Through degree four, the ordered full cycle partitions determine a connected permutation triple up to simultaneous relabeling. Consequently every inhabited ordered passport in these degrees has size one, even without using its monodromy subgroup to distinguish classes.
The cycle-data tables list all three degree-two classes, all seven degree-three classes, and all twenty-six degree-four classes. The degree-four table also determines their genera and geometry types: six classes have genus one, four are Euclidean, three are hyperbolic, and the rest are spherical. Fixed points are included in every displayed partition.
The degree-four representatives realize exactly the cycle data in the table, and every connected degree-four triple is equivalent to one of them. Consequently the table classifies connected triples up to relabeling, determines their Euler characteristics, genera, and geometry types, counts the twenty-six isomorphism classes, and shows that every inhabited ordered passport through degree four contains a single class.
References #
- S. K. Lando, A. K. Zvonkin, Graphs on Surfaces and Their Applications, Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences 141, Springer 2004, §1.5.
The complete table of ordered full cycle data in degree four.
The ordered full cycle data of every connected degree-four triple appear in the table
degreeFourCycleData.
Through degree four, the ordered full cycle partitions classify connected triples up to simultaneous relabeling. The monodromy group is not needed as an additional invariant.
The unique ordered cycle datum in degree one.
The complete table of ordered full cycle data in degree two. The three classes differ by which branch point is unramified.
The complete table of ordered full cycle data in degree three. There are three cyclic spherical classes, three nonabelian spherical classes, and one cyclic Euclidean class.
A connected degree-four triple has Euler characteristic zero precisely for the six cycle data obtained by placing two full four-cycles beside either two two-cycles or a three-cycle and a fixed point; all other degree-four classes have Euler characteristic two.
A connected degree-four triple has genus one precisely for the six cycle data obtained by placing two full four-cycles beside either two two-cycles or a three-cycle and a fixed point; all other degree-four classes have genus zero.
The exact geometry type of a connected degree-four triple, read from its ordered full cycle
data. The three permutations of ([3,1], [4], [4]) are hyperbolic; the three permutations of
([2,2], [4], [4]) and ([3,1], [3,1], [3,1]) are Euclidean; all others are spherical.
Through degree three, the Euler characteristic is zero for the triple with three full three-cycles, and two for every other connected triple.
The unique positive-genus class through degree three is the class with full cycle
partition [3] at all three branch points, and it has genus one.
The class with three full three-cycles is Euclidean; every other connected class through degree three is spherical.
There are twenty-six isomorphism classes of connected permutation triples of degree four.
Through degree four, an inhabited ordered passport consists of exactly one isomorphism class. This is stronger than bounding its size: the class is identified by any member.
Through degree four, a passport has size one exactly when it is inhabited. Admissibility alone is not substituted for existence of a product-one triple.
Every ordered passport in degree at most four has size zero or one.
The ordered passport of any connected triple through degree four has size one.