On Soluble Groups of Automorphism of Riemann Surfaces (Q3978877)

It is well known that each compact Riemann surface of genus \(g\geq 2\) has at most \(84(g-1)\) automorphisms, but there is not a compact Riemann surface of genus \(g\) that admits a soluble group of order \(84(g-1)\) as the group of automorphisms. \textit{B. P. Chetiya} in [Ph. D. Thesis Birmingham University (1971)] proved that a soluble group of automorphisms on such a surface has order \(\leq 48(g-1)\). A soluble group \(G\) is said to be \(n\)-soluble, if its derived length is \(n\), i.e., \(n\) is the smallest integer such that the \(n\)-th derived group \(G^{(n)}\) of \(G\) vanishes. Thus one can think on abelian and metabelian groups as 1 and 2-soluble groups respectively. It is known that the bounds for the order of the group of automorphisms are \(4(g+1)\) for abelian [\textit{C. Maclachlan}, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 15, 699--712 (1965; Zbl 0156.08902)] and \(16(g-1)\) for metabelian \((g>5)\) [\textit{B. P. Chetiya}, and \textit{K. Patre}, J. Lond. Math. Soc. II. Ser. 33, 467--472 (1986; Zbl 0571.30036)]. In this paper the author proves that if \(G\) is a 3-soluble group, and \(G\) acts as an automorphism group on a compact Riemann surface of genus \(g\neq 3,5,6,10\), then it has at most \(24(g-1)\) elements. Moreover conversely he also proves that given a positive integer \(n\), there exists a Riemann surface of genus \(g=n^ 4+1\) that admits such a group of automorphisms of order \(24(g-1)\).