Jin Ho Kwak ; Alexander Mednykh ; Roman Nedela
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Enumeration of orientable coverings of a non-orientable manifold
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Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science,
January 1, 2008,
DMTCS Proceedings vol. AJ, 20th Annual International Conference on Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics (FPSAC 2008)
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https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.3647
Enumeration of orientable coverings of a non-orientable manifoldArticle
Authors: Jin Ho Kwak 1; Alexander Mednykh 2; Roman Nedela 3
In this paper we solve the known V.A. Liskovets problem (1996) on the enumeration of orientable coverings over a non-orientable manifold with an arbitrary finitely generated fundamental group. As an application we obtain general formulas for the number of chiral and reflexible coverings over the manifold. As a further application, we count the chiral and reflexible maps and hypermaps on a closed orientable surface by the number of edges. Also, by this method the number of self-dual and Petri-dual maps can be determined. This will be done in forthcoming papers by authors.