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Non-Abelian Simple Groups Act with Almost All Signatures

Group Theory 2019-07-19 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

The topological data of a group action on a compact Riemann surface is often encoded using a tuple (h;m1,,ms)(h;m_1,\dots ,m_s) called its signature. There are two easily verifiable arithmetic conditions on a tuple necessary for it to be a signature of some group action. In the following, we derive necessary and sufficient conditions on a group GG for when these arithmetic conditions are in fact sufficient to be a signature for all but finitely many tuples that satisfy them. As a consequence, we show that all non-Abelian finite simple groups exhibit this property.

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@article{arxiv.1907.07999,
  title  = {Non-Abelian Simple Groups Act with Almost All Signatures},
  author = {Mariela Carvacho and Jennifer Paulhus and Tom Tucker and Aaron Wootton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.07999},
  year   = {2019}
}
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