On orientably-regular maps of Euler characteristic $-2p^2$

Abstract

In this article, we study orientably-regular maps of Euler characteristic $-2p^2$ and classify those that admit a group of orientation-preserving automorphisms of order $10p^2$, where $p$ is a prime number. Along the way, we classify all compact Riemann surfaces (or complex algebraic curves) of genus $1+p^2$ endowed with a group of conformal automorphisms of order $5p^2$.