Computing intersections of closed geodesics on the modular curve

DOI10.1016/J.JNT.2020.11.024MaRDI QIDQ2030238zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors James Rickards

Publication date 7 June 2021

Published in Journal of Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.04103

zbMATH Keywords

modular geodesicsindefinite binary quadratic formsConway topograph

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Modular and automorphic functions (11F03) General binary quadratic forms (11E16) Knot theory (57K10)

Abstract: In a recent work of Duke, Imamo={g}lu, and T'{o}th, the linking number of certain links on the space $$ is investigated. This linking number has an alternative interpretation as the intersection number of closed geodesics on the modular curve, which is the focus of this paper. By relating the intersection number to a combinatorial computation involving rivers of Conway topographs, an efficient algorithm for computing intersection numbers is produced. A formula for the total intersection of a pair of positive coprime fundamental discriminants is also derived, which can be thought of as a real quadratic analogue of a classical result of Gross and Zagier. The paper ends with numerical computations and distribution questions relating to intersection numbers.

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• Modular knots, automorphic forms, and the Rademacher symbols for triangle groups
• Improved computation of fundamental domains for arithmetic Fuchsian groups
• Counting intersection numbers of closed geodesics on Shimura curves
• Computing Self-Intersections of Closed Geodesics on Finite-Sheeted Covers of the Modular Surface
• Special curves in modular surfaces
• Linking numbers of modular geodesics
• Arithmetic intersections of modular geodesics
• A hyperbolic analogue of the Rademacher symbol
• Intersecting geodesics on the modular surface
• Cycle integrals of the Parson Poincaré series and intersection angles of geodesics on modular curves
• Algorithms for computing intersection numbers on moduli spaces of curves, with an application to the class of the locus of Jacobians

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