In a previous paper, the first three authors formulated a precise conjecture about the dimension of the generalized Severi varietyMd,g;S,kn of degree-d holomorphic maps P1→Pn whose images' singularities are singleton cusps with value semigroups S and ramification profiles k. In this paper, we prove that an adjusted form of the conjecture holds for generic profiles k associated with two distinguished (infinite) classes of semigroups S.
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