Classification of cyclic group actions on noncompact surfaces (Q1816516)
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Classification of cyclic group actions on noncompact surfaces (English)
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15 December 1996
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Classification of group actions on surfaces is a question arising from the Nielsen realization problem. Nielsen gave a classification theorem for cyclic group actions on a closed, oriented, connected surface which shows that the action can be classified by their fixed point data. This paper considers certain group actions on noncompact, oriented, connected surfaces. The main difficulties are that a noncompact surface may have infinite genus, and the branch set of an action on a noncompact surface could be infinite. We introduce the end data and the type of a cluster end, and provide a complete classification of cyclic group actions on noncompact surfaces in terms of fixed point data, end data, and cluster end types.
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noncompact surface
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conjugate equivalence
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stable equivalence
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group actions
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Nielsen realization
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end data
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classification of cyclic group actions
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fixed point data
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cluster end types
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