## Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan

### A uniqueness of periodic maps on surfaces

#### Abstract

Kulkarni showed that, if $g$ is greater than $3$, a periodic map on an oriented surface $\Sigma_g$ of genus $g$ with order not smaller than $4g$ is uniquely determined by its order, up to conjugation and power. In this paper, we show that, if $g$ is greater than $30$, the same phenomenon happens for periodic maps on the surfaces with orders more than $8g/3$, and, for any integer $N$, there is $g > N$ such that there are periodic maps of $\Sigma_g$ of order $8g/3$ which are not conjugate up to power each other. Moreover, as a byproduct of our argument, we provide a short proof of Wiman's classical theorem: the maximal order of periodic maps of $\Sigma_g$ is $4g+2$.

#### Article information

Source
J. Math. Soc. Japan, Volume 68, Number 4 (2016), 1777-1787.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 24 October 2016

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jmsj/1477327233

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.2969/jmsj/06841777

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3564451

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1375.57025

#### Citation

HIROSE, Susumu; KASAHARA, Yasushi. A uniqueness of periodic maps on surfaces. J. Math. Soc. Japan 68 (2016), no. 4, 1777--1787. doi:10.2969/jmsj/06841777. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.jmsj/1477327233

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