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ID: past-exam-of-the-geometry-of-surfaces-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2023/2/b/solution
Past exam of the geometry of surfaces course of the University of Oxford 2023 2 b Solution by
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Every nonidentity biholomorphism in the finite group has only finitely many fixed points, by the identity theorem on a Riemann surface and compactness. Because the group action is a faithful group action, the union of these finite sets does not exhaust . A point outside this union has trivial stabilizer subgroup, so its group orbit has points by the orbit-stabilizer theorem. The generic fiber of a function of the projection is such an group orbit, givingMore precisely, put and . Differentiation at gives a group homomorphism . It is injective: if a nonidentity finite-order germ had the form with and , then its th iterate would begin , so no positive iterate could be the identity. A germ equal to the identity gives the identity on by the identity theorem on a Riemann surface. Thus is a cyclic group, with derivative image the th roots of unity.
For completeness, an explicit local coordinate linearizing isIt has , and reindexing the sum gives . Therefore a coordinate on the local quotient space is . Other translates of a sufficiently small neighbourhood of are disjoint unless their translating element lies in , so this local quotient space is also a chart for . The local cyclic quotient of a Riemann surface consequently gives
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