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Charles Matthews
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Q1: A typical Riemann surface has no holomorphic automorphisms, and this implies a negative answer to Q2. I don't see that Q3 can work: the p-subgroups surely don't uniquely determine the group in general.

The literature on these questions is quite large. http://www.jstor.org/pss/2160738 is a paper on the issue of surfaces with no non-trivial automorphisms. It is a little hard to tell what you want, but some of the material on the inverse Galois theory problem (which does use curves) might help you.

Charles Matthews
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