Automorphism Groups of Symmetric and Pseudo-real Riemann Surfaces

The category of smooth, irreducible, projective, complex algebraic curves is equivalent to the category of compact Riemann surfaces. We study automorphism groups of Riemann surfaces which are equivalent to complex algebraic curves with real moduli. A complex algebraic curve C has real moduli when the corresponding surface $$X_C$$ X C admits an anti-conformal automorphism. If no such an automorphism is an involution (symmetry), then the surface $$X_C$$ X C is called pseudo-real and the curve C is isomorphic to its conjugate, but is not definable over reals. Otherwise, the surface $$X_C$$ X C is called symmetric and the curve C is real.

A Class of Pseudo-Real Riemann Surfaces with Diagonal Automorphism Group

A Riemann surface [Formula: see text] having field of moduli ℝ, but not a field of definition, is called pseudo-real. This means that [Formula: see text] has anticonformal automorphisms, but none of them is an involution. A Riemann surface is said to be plane if it can be described by a smooth plane model of some degree d ≥ 4 in [Formula: see text]. We characterize pseudo-real-plane Riemann surfaces [Formula: see text], whose conformal automorphism group Aut+([Formula: see text]) is PGL3(ℂ)-conjugate to a finite non-trivial group that leaves invariant infinitely many points of [Formula: see text]. In particular, we show that such pseudo-real-plane Riemann surfaces exist only if Aut+([Formula: see text]) is cyclic of even order n dividing the degree d. Explicit families of pseudo-real-plane Riemann surfaces are given for any degree d = 2pm with m > 1 odd, p prime and n = d/p.

On (q,n)-gonal pseudo-real Riemann surfaces

A compact Riemann surface [Formula: see text] of genus [Formula: see text] is called pseudo-real if it admits an anticonformal automorphism but no anticonformal involution. In this paper, we study pseudo-real [Formula: see text]-gonal Riemann surfaces of genera greater or equal to two; these surfaces have anticonformal automorphisms of prime order [Formula: see text] such that the quotient spaces have genus [Formula: see text].