Hurwitz surfaces

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Hurwitz surfaces are compact Riemann surfaces of maximal possible automorphism group size for their genus, achieving the Hurwitz bound of 84(g−1) symmetries.

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Label Occurrences
Hurwitz surfaces canonical 3
Hurwitz surface 2
Fricke–Macbeath curve 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Hurwitz surface
Hurwitz surface
Hurwitz surface
algebraic curve
compact Riemann surface
complex algebraic curve
geometric object
characterizedBy |Aut(X)| = 84(g(X)−1)
correspondsTo points with maximal automorphism group in moduli space of curves
definedOver complex numbers
hasAutomorphismGroup Hurwitz group
PSL(2,7)
finite group
group of conformal automorphisms
hasAutomorphismGroupOrder 168
504
84(g−1)
hasAutomorphismGroupOrderUpperBound 84(g−1)
hasBelyiMap ramified over three points with ramification type (2,3,7)
hasCurvature negative
hasEulerCharacteristic 2−2g
hasExample Fricke–Macbeath curve
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Klein quartic
Macbeath surface
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hasFundamentalGroup torsion-free subgroup of (2,3,7) triangle group
hasGenus 3
7
g ≥ 2
hasMetric hyperbolic metric
hasProperty maximal automorphism group for its genus
hasSymmetryType maximally symmetric for its genus
is quotient of hyperbolic plane by a torsion-free subgroup of (2,3,7) triangle group
isQuotientOf hyperbolic plane
liesIn moduli space of curves of genus g
maximizes number of conformal automorphisms for given genus
namedAfter Adolf Hurwitz
relatedTo Fuchsian group
Galois Belyi map
Hurwitz group
Hurwitz’s automorphism theorem
triangle group (2,3,7)
satisfies Hurwitz bound
studiedIn Riemann surface theory
algebraic geometry
complex analysis
geometric group theory
uniformizedBy (2,3,7) triangle group
usedIn construction of large automorphism groups of curves

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(2,3,7) triangle group isAssociatedWith Hurwitz surfaces
Adolf Hurwitz knownFor Hurwitz surfaces
Hurwitz surface hasExample Macbeath surface
subject linked to: Hurwitz surfaces
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Hurwitz surface hasExample Fricke–Macbeath curve
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Hurwitz group relatedTo Hurwitz surface
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Hurwitz group actsOn Hurwitz surface
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Hurwitz group relatedTo Hurwitz curve
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Accola–Maclachlan bound relatedTo Hurwitz surfaces
Wiman bound relatedTo Hurwitz curves
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