Omnipersistent signatures

Abstract

In this note, we lay the groundwork for a new approach to the problem of group-signature classification of group actions on closed Riemann surfaces. This new approach first focuses on analyzing the low level arithmetic conditions on signatures before invoking the more complicated group theory. We provide the complete first step in this approach by giving the complete list of signatures which arithmetically could appear as a signature in every possible genus, and the subset of those which do appear as the signature of a group action in every possible genus.