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# Seminár z algebratickej teórie grafov - Martin Škoviera (12.10.2018)

## v piatok 12.10.2018 o 13:30 hod. v miestnosti M/XI

10. 10. 2018 08.01 hod.

Prednášajúci: Martin Škoviera

Názov: Complete regular dessins and skew-morphisms of cyclic groups

Termín: 12.10.2018, 13:30 hod., M/XI

Abstrakt:
A dessin d'enfant (dessin, for short) is a 2-cell embedding of a connected bipartite graph into a closed oriented surface, endowed with a fixed vertex 2-colouring. A dessin is regular if its automorphism group acts regularly on the edges. Dessins were introduced by Grothendieck over thirty years ago as a combinatorial counterpart of algebraic curves. In this talk we deal with regular dessins whose underlying graph is a complete bipartite graph Km,n, called (m,n)-complete dessins. We discuss a rather surprising correspondence between (m,n)-complete regular dessins and skew-morphisms of cyclic groups. We show that every (m,n)-complete regular dessin D gives rise to a closely related reciprocal'' pair of skew-morphisms of Z_n and Z_m. Conversely, D can be easily reconstructed from the reciprocal pair up to isomorphism. As a consequence, we prove that complete regular dessins, exact bicyclic groups with a distinguished pair of generators, and reciprocal pairs of skew-morphisms of cyclic groups are all in a one-to-one correspondence. We apply the main result to determining all pairs of integers m and n for which there exists, up to interchange of colours, exactly one (m,n)-complete regular dessin. We show that the latter occurs precisely when every group expressible as a product of cyclic groups of order m and n is abelian, which eventually comes down to the condition (m,\phi(n))=(\phi(m),n)=1.

(This is a joint work with Y.-Q. Feng, K. Hu, N.-E. Wang, and R. Nedela.)