Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Let
$G$
be a finite group. A faithful
$G$
-variety
$X$
is called strongly incompressible if every dominant
$G$
-equivariant rationalmap of
$X$
onto another faithful
$G$
-variety
$Y$
is birational. We settle the problem of existence of strongly incompressible
$G$
-curves for any finite group
$G$
and any base field
$k$
of characteristic zero.