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Unstable maps

Combinatorics 2018-10-05 v1

Abstract

A map which is non-orientable or has non-empty boundary has a canonical double cover which is orientable and has empty boundary. The map is called stable if every automorphism of this cover is a lift of an automorphism of the map. This note describes several infinite families of unstable maps, and relates them to similar phenomena for graphs, hypermaps and Klein surfaces.

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@article{arxiv.1810.02143,
  title  = {Unstable maps},
  author = {Gareth A. Jones},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.02143},
  year   = {2018}
}

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11 pages, 4 figures