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Coverings of Groups, Regular Dessins, and Surfaces

Combinatorics 2024-09-04 v1

Abstract

A coset geometry representation of regular dessins is established, and employed to describe quotients and coverings of regular dessins and surfaces. A characterization is then given of face-quasiprimitive regular dessins as coverings of unicellular regular dessins. It shows that there are exactly three O'Nan-Scott-Praeger types of face-quasiprimitive regular dessins which are smooth coverings of unicellular regular dessins, leading to new constructions of interesting families of regular dessins. Finally, a problem of determining smooth Schur covering of simple groups is initiated by studying coverings between \SL(2,p)\SL(2,p) and \PSL(2,p)\PSL(2,p), giving rise to interesting regular dessins like Fibonacci coverings.

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@article{arxiv.2409.01979,
  title  = {Coverings of Groups, Regular Dessins, and Surfaces},
  author = {Jiyong Chen and Wenwen Fan and Cai Heng Li and Yan Zhou Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.01979},
  year   = {2024}
}