Hurwitz surface

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Etymology

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Named after Adolf Hurwitz.

Noun

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Hurwitz surface (plural Hurwitz surfaces)

  1. (geometry) A compact Riemann surface with precisely 84(g − 1) automorphisms, where g is the genus of the surface. This number is maximal by virtue of Hurwitz's theorem on automorphisms.
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