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The fundamentals for the topological classification of periodic orientationpreserving self-homeomorphisms of a closed orientable topological surface X of genus g ≥ 2 have been established, by Nielsen, in the thirties of the last century. Here we consider two concepts related to this classification; rigidity and weak rigidity. A cyclic action G of order N on X is said to be topologically rigid if any other cyclic action of order N on X is topologically conjugate to it. If this assertion holds for arbitrary other action but having, in addition, the same orbit genus and the same structure of singular orbits, then G is said to be weakly topologically rigid. We give a precise description of rigid and weakly rigid cyclic quasi-platonic actions which mean actions having three singular orbits and for which X/G is a sphere.

Explicit examples of both hyperelliptic and non-hyperelliptic curves which cannot be defined over their field of moduli are known in the literature. In this paper, we construct a tower of explicit examples of such kind of curves. In that tower there are both hyperelliptic curves and non-hyperelliptic curves.

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