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On formulae of Macbeath and Hussein

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2009

W. W. Stothers
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Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QW
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In his thesis [1], Hussein considered regular permutations of order 2 and 3 in Sn whose product is an n-cycle. For such a pair, we must have

for some g ≥ 1. Such a permutation pair corresponds to a free cycloidal subgroup of the classical modular group (see, e.g., [3]). Previously the free subgroups and the cycloidal subgroups of fixed genus had been enumerated ([4], [5]).

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Research Article
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Copyright © Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust 1989

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