Date
Wed, 19 Nov 2014
Time
16:00 - 17:00
Location
C1
Speaker
Federico Vigolo
Organisation
Oxford

In 1983 Kerckhoff settled a long standing conjecture by Nielsen proving that every finite subgroup of the mapping class group of a compact surface can be realized as a group of diffeomorphisms. An important consequence of this theorem is that one can now try to study subgroups of the mapping class group taking the quotient of the surface by these groups of diffeomorphisms. In this talk we will study quotients of surfaces under the action of a finite group to find bounds on the cardinality of such a group.

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