Maximal real Schottky groups

Abstract

Let $S$ be a real closed Riemann surfaces together a reflection $\tau :S\to S$, that is, an anticonformal involution with fixed points. A well known fact due to C. L. May [19] asserts that the group $K(S,\tau )$, consisting on all automorphisms (conformal and anticonformal) of $S$ which commutes with $\tau$, has order at most $24(g-1)$. The surface $S$ is called maximally symmetric Riemann surface if $|K(S,\tau )|=24(g-1)$ [8]. In this note we proceed to construct real Schottky uniformizations of all maximally symmetric Riemann surfaces of genus $g\le 5$. A method due to Burnside [3] permits us the computation of a basis of holomorphic one forms in terms of these real Schottky groups and, in particular, to compute a Riemann period matrix for them. We also use this in genus 2 and 3 to compute an algebraic curve representing the uniformized surface $S$. The arguments used in this note can be programed into a computer program in order to obtain numerical approximation of Riemann period matrices and algebraic curves for the uniformized surface $S$ in terms of the parameters defining the real Schottky groups.