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A Survey of Beauville \(p\)-Groups

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Beauville Surfaces and Groups

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This paper describes recent results as to which \(p\)-groups are Beauville, with emphasis on ones of small order (joint with N. Barker and B. Fairbairn) and ones that form inverse systems (joint with N. Barker, N. Peyerimhoff, and A. Vdovina).

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Acknowledgments

I thank my co-authors Nathan Barker, Ben Fairbairn, Norbert Peyerimhoff, and Alina Vdovina for their encouragement and hard work in helping develop this field.

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, 303 Van Vleck Hall, 480 Lincoln Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, USA

    Nigel Boston

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  1. Lehrstuhl Mathematik VIII, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

    Ingrid Bauer

  2. Institut für Mathematische Logik und Gru, University of Münster, Münster, Germany

    Shelly Garion

  3. School of Mathematics and Statistics, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

    Alina Vdovina

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Boston, N. (2015). A Survey of Beauville \(p\)-Groups. In: Bauer, I., Garion, S., Vdovina, A. (eds) Beauville Surfaces and Groups. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 123. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13862-6_3

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