Hurwitz Groups: a Brief Survey
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Hurwitz groups are the nontrivial finite quotients 2 3 7 of the ( 2 , 3 , 7 ) triangle group (x, y\x — y = (xy) = 1) . This paper gives a brief survey of such groups, their significance, and some of their properties, together with a description of all examples known to the author.
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