%0 Journal Article %T Hurwitz generation of the universal covering of Alt(n) %A M. A. Pellegrini M. C. Tamburini %J Mathematics %D 2010 %I arXiv %X We prove that the universal covering of an alternating group Alt(n) which is Hurwitz is still Hurwitz, with 31 exceptions, 30 of which are detectable by the genus formula. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.5125v1