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Surface symmetries and $ PSL_2(p)$

Author(s): Murad Özaydin; Charlotte Simmons; Jennifer Taback
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 359 (2007), 2243-2268.
MSC (2000): Primary 57M60; Secondary 12F12, 20H10, 30F10
Posted: December 19, 2006
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Abstract: We classify, up to conjugacy, all orientation-preserving actions of $ PSL_2(p)$ on closed connected orientable surfaces with spherical quotients. This classification is valid in the topological, PL, smooth, conformal, geometric and algebraic categories and is related to the Inverse Galois Problem.

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Additional Information:

Murad Özaydin
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019
Email: mozaydin@math.ou.edu

Charlotte Simmons
Affiliation: Department of Marthematics and Statistics, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma 73034
Email: cksimmons@ucok.edu

Jennifer Taback
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine 04011
Email: jtaback@bowdoin.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-06-04011-6
PII: S 0002-9947(06)04011-6
Received by editor(s): February 1, 2003
Received by editor(s) in revised form: March 14, 2005
Posted: December 19, 2006
Copyright of article: Copyright 2006, American Mathematical Society

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