Massimo Giulietti

Curves with a large automorphism group admitting a cyclic subgroup of index $2$

The Hurwitz bound on the order of the $\mathbb K$-automorphism group ${\rm{Aut}}({\mathcal{X}})$ of an algebraic curve ${\mathcal{X}}$ of genus $g(\mathcal{X})\ge 2$ defined over a field $\mathbb K$ of zero characteristic states that $|{\rm{Aut}}({\mathcal{X}})|\le 84(g(\mathcal{X})-1)$. Improved bounds are available f...