Marston Conder
- Distinguished Professor of Mathematics (and former Co-Director of the
New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (the
NZIMA))
- Email: m.conder@auckland.ac.nz
- Telephone: +64 9 9238879
- Fax: +64 9 3737457
- Office: Rm 417 SMIS/Physics building
Research interests
My main areas of interest are group theory and graph theory (sections 20 and
05 in Math Reviews). I am especially interested in the methods and applications of combinatorial group theory, including computational techniques for handling finitely-presented groups and their images.
Publications
Click where underlined for a list of my refereed academic
publications
and some
preprints
of recent papers (available as postscript files).
Lists of regular maps, hypermaps and polytopes, trivalent symmetric graphs, and surface actions
Click where underlined to see and download recently-found lists of
    Regular/chiral maps and hypermaps
- all
regular orientable maps
on surfaces of genus 2 to 101, up to isomorphism and duality,
with defining relations for their automorphism groups
- all
regular non-orientable maps
on surfaces of genus 2 to 202, up to isomorphism and duality,
with defining relations for their automorphism groups
- all
chiral (irreflexible) orientably-regular maps
on surfaces of genus 2 to 101, up to isomorphism, duality and reflection,
with defining relations for their automorphism groups
- all
proper orientable regular hypermaps
on surfaces of genus 2 to 101, up to isomorphism and triality,
with defining relations for their automorphism groups [WARNING: this is a 4.34MB file!]
- all
proper non-orientable regular hypermaps
on surfaces of genus 2 to 202, up to isomorphism and triality,
with defining relations for their automorphism groups
- all
proper chiral orientably-regular hypermaps
on surfaces of genus 2 to 101, up to isomorphism, triality and reflection,
with defining relations for their automorphism groups
- all
regular orientable maps on surfaces of genus 2 to 301,
up to isomorphism and duality, with defining relations for their automorphism groups
- all
chiral (irreflexible) orientably-regular maps on surfaces of genus 2 to 301,
up to isomorphism, duality and reflection, with defining relations for their automorphism groups
- all
regular non-orientable maps of genus 2 to 602,
up to isomorphism, duality and reflection, with defining relations for their automorphism groups
- all
rotary maps on closed surfaces with up to 1000 edges, up to isomorphism and duality and other transformations (including Petrie duality and opposite, when the map is fully regular, and missor image when the map is chiral)
- all
fully regular maps on closed surfaces with up to 1000 edges,
up to isomorphism and transformation under the six "Wilson" operators (duality, Petrie duality, opposite, etc.)
- all
chiral rotary maps on orientable surfaces with up to 1000 edges,
up to isomorphism, mirror image and duality
- all
orientably-regular maps with rotation group of order at most 400
- all
orientably-regular maps with rotation group a non-dihedral group of order at most 400
-
regular and orientably-regular maps on closed surfaces having small Euler characteristic, listed by their type, up to duality
-
regular and orientably-regular maps on closed surfaces having small non-positive Euler characteristic, listed by their type, up to duality
-
regular and orientably-regular maps on closed surfaces having small negative Euler characteristic, listed by their type, up to duality
    Group actions on surfaces
- all
quotients of triangle groups
that act on compact Riemann surfaces of genus 2 to 101, up to isomorphism, duality/triality and reflection,
with defining relators (normal generators for the kernel) [WARNING: this is a 4.0MB file!]
- all
large groups of automorphisms
of compact Riemann surfaces of genus 2 to 101, up to equivalence of the group action,
listed by the type of Fuchsian group (with triangular or quadrangular signature),
along with defining relators (normal generators for the kernel) [WARNING: this is a 22.8MB file!]
- all
large groups of automorphisms
of compact Riemann surfaces of genus 2 to 101, up to equivalence of the group action,
listed by genus, along with the type of Fuchsian group (with triangular or quadrangular signature),
and group defining relators (normal generators for the kernel) [WARNING: this is a 25.6MB file!]
- a summary of the
maximum orders of group actions on compact Riemann surfaces of genus 2 to 301, with signature types for the actions that have the maximum order
- a summary of the
maximum orders of group actions on compact non-orientable Klein surfaces of genus 3 to 302, with signature types for the actions that have the maximum order
- a summary of the strong symmetric genus of all groups of order 2 to 127, including the signature types for the actions of the group on (orientable) surfaces of the corresponding genus
- a list of all the finite groups with strong symmetric genus 2 to 32, including the signature types for the actions of the group on (orientable) surfaces of the corresponding genus
- a summary of the symmetric genus of all groups of order 2 to 127, including the signature types for the actions of the group on (orientable) surfaces of the corresponding genus
- a list of all the finite groups with symmetric genus 2 to 32, including the signature types for the actions of the group on (orientable) surfaces of the corresponding genus
- a summary of the symmetric cross-cap number of all groups of order 2 to 127, including the signature types for the actions of the group on (non-orientable) surfaces of the corresponding genus
- a list of all the finite groups with symmetric cross-cap number 3 to 65, including the signature types for the actions of the group on (non-orientable) surfaces of the corresponding genus
    Symmetric graphs
- all
trivalent (cubic) symmetric graphs
on up to 2048 vertices, up to isomorphism, categorised by their type,
and with a link to a 6.1Mb gzipped directory containing all the graphs themselves
- all
trivalent (cubic) symmetric graphs on up to 10000 vertices,
up to isomorphism, categorised by their type, etc.,
with this link to a 370.1Mb file containing the edge-sets,
and this link to a 113.6Mb gzipped version of that file.
- all
symmetric graphs of order 2 to 30, up to isomorphism, with some information about their automorphism groups.
- all
symmetric graphs of order 2 to 47, up to isomorphism, and given by their edge-sets, with some information about their automorphism groups.
- all
symmetric graphs of order 2 to 47, up to isomorphism, and given by the neighbours of each vertex, with some information about their automorphism groups.
    Semi-symmetric graphs
    Regular/chiral polytopes
- all
regular polytopes with up to 2000 flags,
up to isomorphism and duality, ordered by the number of flags under each rank, excluding those of rank 2 (regular polygons) and
the degenerate examples that have a '2' in their Schlaefli symbol
- all
regular polytopes with up to 2000 flags,
up to isomorphism and duality, ordered by their type under each rank, excluding those of rank 2 (regular polygons) and
the degenerate examples that have a '2' in their Schlaefli symbol
- all
chiral polytopes with up to 2000 flags,
up to isomorphism, reflection and duality, ordered by the number of flags under each rank
- all
chiral polytopes with up to 2000 flags,
up to isomorphism, reflection and duality, ordered by their type under each rank
These things were obtained (from August 2006 onwards) with the help of the new "LowIndexNormalSubgroups"
routine in MAGMA.
Other information and useful contacts
- The
New Zealand Mathematical Society
- The
New Zealand Journal of Mathematics
- The
Group Pub Forum
- The
World Combinatorics Exchange
- The
Graph Theory White Pages
- Gordon Royle's
Combinatorial catalogues
- The
Mathematics Genealogy Project website.
Address
Prof. M.D.E. Conder
Department of Mathematics
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019, Auckland
NEW ZEALAND