A Computer Search for Free Actions on Surfaces

DOI10.2307/2589645MaRDI QIDQ4221593zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Craig M. Johnson

Publication date 3 January 1999

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2589645

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to manifolds and cell complexes (57-04) Group actions on manifolds and cell complexes in low dimensions (57M60) Finite transformation groups (57S17) Groups acting on specific manifolds (57S25)

Review text

If a finite group \(G\) acts freely on an orientable closed surface \(T\) and contains orientation-reversing elements, then the orbit space is a non-orientable surface \(U\). Let \(N\) denote the kernel of the homomorphism \(\pi_1U\to\mathbb{Z}_2\) sending each generator to the nontrivial element of \(\mathbb{Z}_2\). Then actions of the above type correspond bijectively to epimorphisms \(\pi_1U\to G\) whose restriction to \(N\) is not surjective. This is used to run a computer search for all such actions where the (necessarily even) order of \(G\) is \(2n\leq 14\) and \(T\) is of genus \(n+1\). In this case, \(U\) is of genus 3, and the search algorithm just checks all possible images of the three generators of \(\pi_1 U\).

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