Dawson, Erin, authorCavalieri, Renzo, advisorGillespie, Maria, committee memberMiranda, Rick, committee memberCanetto, Silvia, committee member2025-06-022025-06-022025https://hdl.handle.net/10217/241063Tropical Hurwitz spaces parameterize genus g, degree d covers of a tropical rational curve with fixed branch profiles. Since tropical curves are metric graphs, this gives us a combinatorial way to study Hurwitz spaces. Tevelev degrees are the degrees of a natural finite map from the Hurwitz space to a product Mgnbar{g,n} cross Mgnbar{0,n}. In 2021, Cela, Pandharipande and Schmitt presented this interpretation of Tevelev degrees in terms of moduli spaces of Hurwitz covers. We define the tropical Tevelev degrees, Tev_g^trop in analogy to the algebraic case. We develop an explicit combinatorial construction that computes Tev_g^trop = 2^g. We prove that these tropical enumerative invariants agree with their algebraic counterparts, giving an independent tropical computation of the algebraic degrees Tev_g. We finally generalize tropical Tevelev degrees to more cases and construct computations of these invariants.born digitaldoctoral dissertationsengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.geometrytropicalTevelevenumerativeText