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Regular dessins with a given automorphism group

Group Theory 2013-09-23 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Dessins d'enfants are combinatorial structures on compact Riemann surfaces defined over algebraic number fields, and regular dessins are the most symmetric of them. If G is a finite group, there are only finitely many regular dessins with automorphism group G. It is shown how to enumerate them, how to represent them all as quotients of a single regular dessin U(G), and how certain hypermap operations act on them. For example, if G is a cyclic group of order n then U(G) is a map on the Fermat curve of degree n and genus (n-1)(n-2)/2. On the other hand, if G=A_5 then U(G) has genus 274218830047232000000000000000001. For other non-abelian finite simple groups, the genus is much larger.

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@article{arxiv.1309.5219,
  title  = {Regular dessins with a given automorphism group},
  author = {Gareth A. Jones},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.5219},
  year   = {2013}
}

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19 pages

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