On word structure of the modular group over finite and real quadratic fields

DOI10.1016/S0012-365X(97)81824-9MaRDI QIDQ1377845zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Qaiser Mushtaq

Publication date 9 September 1998

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/S0012-365X(97)81824-9

zbMATH Keywords

circuitsfinite fieldsgraphsgroups of linear fractional transformationsmodular groupsprojective lines over fieldsreal quadratic fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) (05C25) Linear algebraic groups over finite fields (20G40) Unimodular groups, congruence subgroups (group-theoretic aspects) (20H05)

Review text

Let \(\widehat F=F\cup\{\infty\}\) be the projective line over a field \(F\) and let \(G\) be the image (under the natural map) of the modular group \(\text{PSL}_2(\mathbb{Z})\) in \(\text{PSL}_2(F)\). Then \(G\) acts on \(\widehat F\) as a group of linear fractional transformations in the usual way. Let \(g\in C\) fix \(\beta\in\widehat F\). Now \(g\) can be written as a word in the ``standard generators of \(G\) and this gives rise (regarding the elements of \(\widehat F\) as the vertices of a graph) to a circuit in \(\widehat F\) containing \(\beta\). In this paper, the author is concerned with questions of the following type. Suppose that \(F\) is a real quadratic or finite field and let \(\alpha\) belong to a circuit. What conditions on the circuit ensure that the conjugate of \(\alpha\), \(\overline\alpha\), also belongs to the circuit?

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