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As said in the Introduction, under the correspondence between compact Riemann surfaces and smooth irreducible complex projective algebraic curves, the fact that a Riemann surface S is symmetric means that the corresponding complex curve C can be defined over the field R of real numbers.
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Bujalance, E., Cirre, F.J., Gamboa, J.M., Gromadzki, G. (2010). On the Number of Conjugacy Classes of Symmetries of Riemann Surfaces. In: Symmetries of Compact Riemann Surfaces. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2007. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14828-6_2
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