Mumford curves in a specialized pencil of sextics (Q5937997)

The author studies the Mumford curves in the pencil constructed by \textit{W. L. Edge} [Math. Proc. Camb. Philos. Soc. 90, 413-421 (1981; Zbl 0466.51020)] on a Del Pezzo quintic surface, when the base field \(K\) is a complete, algebraically closed field of characteristic \(\neq 2,3, 5\). The analytization of the Mumford curves in the pencil, \(X_\lambda^{an}\), is isomorphic to a quotient \(\Gamma\setminus \Omega_\Gamma\) by a Schottky group \(\Gamma\subset \text{PGL} (2,K)\), \(\Omega_\Gamma\) being a rigid analytic subdomain in \(\mathbb{P}^{1,an}_k\) determined by \(\Gamma\). The author determines completely the structure of the normalizer, \(N(\Gamma)\), of \(\Gamma\) in \(\text{PGL} (2,K)\) as an abstract group.