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Assume that we have a (compact) Riemann surface S, of genus greater than 2, with \(S = {\mathbb{D}}/ \Gamma\), where \({\mathbb{D}}\) is the complex unit disc and Γ is a surface Fuchsian group. Let us further consider that S has an automorphism group G in such a way that the orbifold S/G is isomorphic to \({\mathbb{D}}/\Gamma^\prime\) where \(\Gamma^\prime\) is a Fuchsian group such that \(\Gamma \vartriangleleft \Gamma^\prime\) and \(\Gamma^\prime\) has signature σ appearing in the list of non-finitely maximal signatures of Fuchsian groups of Theorems 1 and 2 in [6]. We establish an algebraic condition for G such that if G satisfies such a condition then the group of automorphisms of S is strictly greater than G, i.e., the surface S is more symmetric that we are supposing. In these cases, we establish analytic information on S from topological and algebraic conditions.
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The first author is supported in part by MTM2005-01637, the second author was supported in part by SNFS grant number PBEL2-106180.
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Costa, A.F., Parlier, H. Applications of a theorem of Singerman about Fuchsian groups. Arch. Math. 91, 536–543 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-008-2817-3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00013-008-2817-3