Abstract

The hyperelliptic involution of a genus two Riemann surface leaves invariant every simple closed geodesic on the surface. This property is not possessed by any other automorphism of a compact Riemann surface and is related to the effectiveness of the action of the mapping class group of a surface on Teichmüller space.

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