Literature

Here is a list of some papers that we are interested in understanding:

Foundations of maps:

• Jones, Gareth; Singerman, David Theory of maps on orientable surfaces  (MR0505721)
  
• Jones, Gareth; Singerman, David Belyĭ functions, hypermaps and Galois groups (MR1405488)
• Širáň, Jozef Regular maps on a given surface: a survey. (MR2249288)

Classification by Euler characteristic:

• Breda d’Azevedo, Antonio; Nedela, Roman; Širáň, Jozef Classification of regular maps of negative prime Euler characteristic. (MR2159705)
• Conder, Marston D. E.; Širáň, Jozef; Tucker, Thomas W. The genera, reflexibility and simplicity of regular maps. (MR2608943)
•  Conder, Marston; Potočnik, Primož; Širáň, Jozef Regular maps with almost Sylow-cyclic automorphism groups, and classification of regular maps with Euler characteristic . (MR2725192)
  

On planar width:

• Mačaj, Martin; Širáň, Jozef; Ipolyiová, Mária Injectivity radius of representations of triangle groups and planar width of regular hypermaps. (MR2466198)
• Mačaj, Martin; Širáň, Jozef; Ipolyiová, Mária Planar width of regular maps. (MR2324053)

Classifying the groups:

•  Marion, Claude On triangle generation of finite groups of Lie type. (MR2720195)
• Conder, Marston Hurwitz groups: a brief survey. (MR1041434)