Faithful Galois action on unmarked triangle curves

A triangle curve is a smooth curve DD equipped with an effective action of a finite group GG such that D/GPC1D/G \cong \mathbb{P}^{1}_{\mathbb{C}} and the quotient map is branched over {0,1,}\{0,1,\infty\}. An unmarked triangle curve means that the group action is considered up to isomorphism without fixing an embedding of GG into Aut(D)\operatorname{Aut}(D).

Triangle-curve faithfulness conjecture. The absolute Galois group Gal(Q/Q)\operatorname{Gal}(\overline{\mathbb{Q}}/\mathbb{Q}) acts faithfully on the set of isomorphism classes of unmarked triangle curves.

This is identified in the text as the crucial property needed to obtain the desired Galois action on moduli components; no proof or resolution is supplied.

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Fabrizio Catanese, “Algebraic Surfaces and their Moduli Spaces: Real, Differentiable and Symplectic Structures”, arXiv:0812.4318 (2008).

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