The real genus of cyclic by dihedral and dihedral by dihedral groups (Q2368798)

Every finite group acts as an automorphism group of several bordered compact Klein surfaces. The minimal genus of these surfaces is called the real genus. At first, the authors of this paper complete May's discussions about the real genus of groups \(C_m\times D_n\) (where \(C_m\) is a cyclic group). Based on this, they calculate the real genus of the groups \(D_r\times D_s\) (where both factors are dihedral groups).