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Mochizuki's work on torally indigenous bundles [1] yields combinatorial identities by degenerating to different curves of the same genus. We rephrase these identities in combinatorial language and strengthen them, giving relations between Ehrhart quasi-polynomials of different polytopes. We then apply the theory of Ehrhart quasi-polynomials to conclude that the number of dormant torally indigenous bundles on a general curve of a given type is expressed as a polynomial in the characteristic of the base field. In particular, we conclude the same for the number vector bundles of rank two and trivial determinant whose Frobenius-pullbacks are maximally unstable, as well as self-maps of the projective line with prescribed ramification.
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The second author was supported by a fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science during the preparation of this paper.
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Liu, F., Osserman, B. Mochizuki's indigenous bundles and Ehrhart polynomials. J Algebr Comb 23, 125–136 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-006-6920-x
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