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The double of the doubles of Klein surfaces

Geometric Topology 2017-12-06 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

A Klein surface is a surface with a dianalytic structure. A double of a Klein surface XX is a Klein surface YY such that there is a degree two morphism (of Klein surfaces) YXY\rightarrow X. There are many doubles of a given Klein surface and among them the so-called natural doubles which are: the complex double, the Schottky double and the orienting double. We prove that if XX is a non-orientable Klein surface with non-empty boundary, the three natural doubles, although distinct Klein surfaces, share a common double: "the double of doubles" denoted by DXDX. We describe how to use the double of doubles in the study of both moduli spaces and automorphisms of Klein surfaces. Furthermore, we show that the morphism from DXDX to XX is not given by the action of an isometry group on classical surfaces.

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@article{arxiv.1404.0958,
  title  = {The double of the doubles of Klein surfaces},
  author = {Antonio F. Costa and Paola Cristofori and Ana M. Porto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.0958},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

14 pages; more details in the proof of theorem 6