For a finite group generated by , glue sheets labeled by the group over the three-punctured Riemann sphere using left monodromy multiplication. Fill the punctures by the local power charts dictated by the orders of . Right multiplication by inverses defines the commuting deck action. Its nontrivial stabilizers are conjugates of the corresponding cyclic subgroups. The Riemann-Hurwitz formula gives the displayed Euler characteristic. A compatible metric can be averaged over the group; in genus at least two the invariant hyperbolic metric is canonical by the uniformization theorem.
For covers branched over three real points with a real base point, choose the two generating loops so complex conjugation reverses each. A sheet permutation satisfying the displayed identities lifts that conjugation to an anticonformal equivalence of the covers, including the filled branch points. For closed hyperbolic Riemann surfaces this is a Riemannian isometry. Such an isometry need not come from conjugating the subgroups inside the original deck group, so a Gassmann equivalent pair can be isometric despite nonconjugacy there.

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