The genus of compact Riemann surfaces with maximal automorphism group (Q1820244)

The author searches for the Hurwitz groups of order less than one million, and thereby obtains all those integers g, \(1<g<11905\), for which there exist compact Riemann surfaces S of genus g with maximal conformal automorphism group A(S) (a theorem of Hurwitz states that \(| A(S)| =84(g-1))\). There exist just 32 values for such g. Here A(S)\(\cong \Delta /N\), where \(\Delta =<x,y:\) \(x^ 2=y^ 3=(xy)^ 7=1>\) is the triangle group and N is one of 92 proper normal subgroups of \(\Delta\) with index less than \(10^ 6\). These N are found using elementary group-theoretical techniques.