English

Klein's ten planar dessins of degree 11, and beyond

Group Theory 2022-03-18 v2 Algebraic Geometry Number Theory

Abstract

We reinterpret ideas in Klein's paper on transformations of degree 1111 from the modern point of view of dessins d'enfants, and extend his results by considering dessins of type (3,2,p)(3,2,p) and degree pp or p+1p+1, where pp is prime. In many cases we determine the passports and monodromy groups of these dessins, and in a few small cases we give drawings which are topologically (or, in certain examples, even geometrically) correct. We use the Bateman-Horn Conjecture and extensive computer searches to support a conjecture that there are infinitely many primes of the form p=(qn1)/(q1)p=(q^n-1)/(q-1) for some prime power qq, in which case infinitely many groups PSLn(q){\rm PSL}_n(q) arise as permutation groups and monodromy groups of degree pp (an open problem in group theory).

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@article{arxiv.2104.12015,
  title  = {Klein's ten planar dessins of degree 11, and beyond},
  author = {Gareth A. Jones and Alexander K. Zvonkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.12015},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Bibliography updated, typos corrected