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We find new mixed and unmixed Beauville structures for groups constructed as 2-quotients, i.e. quotients of 2-power order, of the fundamental group of a certain simplicial complex.

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Barker, N., Boston, N., Peyerimhoff, N. et al. New examples of Beauville surfaces. Monatsh Math 166, 319–327 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00605-011-0284-6

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