Galois Covers, Grothendieck-Teichmüller Theory and Dessins d'Enfants: Interactions between Geometry, Topology, Number Theory and Algebra, Leicester, UK, June 2018

Preface
Contents
Galois Covers, Grothendieck-Teichmüller Theory and Dessins d\'Enfants - An Introduction
	1 Overview of Themes
	2 Summaries of Individual Contributions
	References
On the Number of Rational Points of Classifying Stacks for Chevalley Group Schemes
	1 Classifying Stacks, ell-Adic Cohomology, Frobenius Morphisms and Zeta Functions
	2 Cohomology of Classifying Stacks and the Theorems of Borel and Steinberg
	3 Applications to Chevalley Group Schemes and Finite Groups of Lie Type
		3.1 Classical and Exceptional Chevalley Groups
		3.2 Twisted Chevalley or Steinberg Groups
	References
Cyclic Symmetry on Complex Tori  and Bagnera–De Franchis Manifolds
	1 Introduction
	2 An Exact Sequence in Factorial Rings
	3 An Arithmetic Application
	4 R(n) : = mathbbZ[Cn] = mathbbZ[x] / (xn -1) -Modules Which Are Torsion Free Abelian Groups
	5 Fully Ramified Cyclic Coverings of the Projective Line and Associated Hodge Structures
	6 Structure Theorem for Bagnera–De Franchis Manifolds
	7 The Intersection Product for the Homology of Fully Ramified Cyclic Coverings of the Line
	References
Second Fundamental Form of the Prym Map in the Ramified Case
	1 Introduction
	2 The 2nd Fundamental Form of the Prym Map
	3 Totally Geodesic Submanifolds
	References
Strongly Real Beauville Groups III
	1 Introduction
	2 Preliminaries
	3 The Finite Simple Groups
	4 Characteristically Simple Groups
	5 Abelian and Nilpotent Groups
	6 Doubly Hurwitz/Minimal Beauville Groups
	7 Miscelenia
		7.1 Purity
		7.2 Higher Dimensional Analogues
		7.3 Reflection Groups
		7.4 Beauville Spectra
		7.5 Beauville Graphs
	References
The Pluricanonical Systems  of a Product-Quotient Variety
	1 Introduction
	2 Minimal Models of Quotients of Product of Two Curves
	3 Product Quotient Varieties Birational to Calabi-Yau Threefolds
	4 Examples of Numerical Calabi-Yau Product-Quotient Threefolds
	5 The Sheaves of Ideals Id on a Smooth Projective Variety with a Finite Group Action
	6 The Sheaves of Ideals Id for Cyclic Quotient Singularities
	7 A Calabi-Yau 3-Fold
	8 A Fake Calabi-Yau 3-Fold
	9 Some Minimal Surfaces of General Type
	References
Joining Dessins Together
	1 Introduction
	2 Preliminaries
		2.1 Hurwitz Dessins
		2.2 Jordan\'s Theorem
		2.3 From Coset Diagrams to Dessins
		2.4 Macbeath–Hurwitz Curves
	3 Some Small Dessins
	4 Joins for Hurwitz Dessins
		4.1 y-Handles and y-Joins
		4.2 The Double Cover mathcalD(k)mathcalD
		4.3 Multiple Joins
		4.4 y-Handles from PSL2(q)
	5 x-Joins
		5.1 The Triple Cover mathcalD(x)mathcalD(x)mathcalD
		5.2 A Non-trivial Example of an x-Join
		5.3 x-Handles from PSL2(q)
	6 Handles and Joins for the Modular Group
	7 Handles and Joins for Dessins of All Types
	References
Arithmetic Chern–Simons Theory I
	1 The Arithmetic Chern–Simons Action: Basic Case
	2 The Arithmetic Chern–Simons Action: Boundaries
	3 The Arithmetic Chern–Simons Action: The p-adic Case
	4 Remarks
	5 Towards Computation
	6 Motivation: L-Functions
	7 Appendix: Conjugation on Group Cochains
	References
Branch Stabilisation for the Components of Hurwitz Moduli Spaces of Galois Covers
	1 Introduction
	2 Algebraic Setting
	3 The Hurwitz Monoid
	4 The Genus Zero Case
	5 Generalisations
	6 The Tautological Lift
	References
Dessins d\'Enfants and Brauer Configuration Algebras
	1 Introduction
	2 Dessins d\'Enfants
		2.1 A Permutation Representation of Dessins
		2.2 Belyĭ\'s Theorem
		2.3 Galois Action on Dessins
	3 From a Dessin d\'Enfant to a Path Algebra
		3.1 Admissible Ideals of KQ and Bound Quiver Algebras
	4 From a Dessin d\'Enfant to a Brauer Configuration Algebra
	5 Examples of (Well-Known) Algebras and Their Dessins
		5.1 Symmetric Nakayama Algebras
		5.2 Koszul Brauer Configuration Algebras
	6 Brauer Configuration Algebra of the Dual Dessin
		6.1 Paths Formed by the Faces of a Dessin
		6.2 Dual Dessins
	7 Galois Action on Brauer Configuration Algebras
	References
On the Elliptic Kashiwara–Vergne Lie Algebra
	1 Introduction
	2 The Elliptic Kashiwara–Vergne Lie Algebra from [AKKN]
	3 A Reformulation of the div Condition
	4 The Mould Theoretic mathfrakkrvell from ch11RS
	References