Modular groups and planar maps (Q2135993)

Let \textrm{PSL}\(_{2}\left(\mathbb{Z}\right) \) be the well-known modular group. The main purpose of the paper under review, is to enumerate the torsion-free genus zero subgroups of finite index of the modular group as well as their conjugacy classes. An explicit formula for the number of subgroups of the modular group of a given index that are genus zero and torsion-free is given. The main result of the paper is the following theorem. Theorem. If \(6\mid \mu \), then the number of torsion-free genus zero modular subgroups of index \(\mu \) is given by \[ N\left( \mu \right) =\left\{ \begin{array}{ccc} \frac{\left( \mu /4\right) !2^{\mu /2}}{\left( (\mu /6)+1\right) !\left( (\mu /12)+1\right) !} & if & 12\mid \mu , \\ \frac{3(\left( \mu /2\right) +1)!(\left( \mu /12\right) +(1/2))!2^{\mu /6}}{\left( (\mu /4)+(3/2)\right) !\left( (\mu /6)+2\right) !\left( \mu /6\right) !} & if & 12\nmid \mu . \end{array} \right. \] If \(6\nmid \mu \), then \(N\left( \mu \right) =0.\)