Genus Bounds for Harmonic Group Actions on Finite Graphs

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2010-06-02

arxiv.org/abs/1006.0446v2

Int. Math. Res. Notices, 2011, No. 19 (2011): 4515-4533

Mathematics

Combinatorics

14 pages with 6 figures; section 8 rewritten to correct an error in lemma 8.2; published version

Scientific paper

10.1093/imrn/rnq261

This paper develops graph analogues of the genus bounds for the maximal size of an automorphism group of a compact Riemann surface of genus $g\ge 2$. Inspired by the work of M. Baker and S. Norine on harmonic morphisms between finite graphs, we motivate and define the notion of a harmonic group action. Denoting by M(g) the maximal size of such a harmonic group action on a graph of genus $g\ge 2$, we prove that $4(g-1)\le M(g)\le 6(g-1)$, and these bounds are sharp in the sense that both are attained for infinitely many values of g. Moreover, we show that the values $4(g-1)$ and $6(g-1)$ are the only values taken by the function $M(g)$.

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