Congruence testing for odd subgroups of the modular group

DOI10.1112/S1461157013000338zbMATH Open1297.20050arXiv1307.0625OpenAlexW1972279892MaRDI QIDQ5170258FDOQ5170258

Authors: Thomas Hamilton, David Loeffler 

Publication date: 23 July 2014

Published in: LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a computationally effective criterion for determining whether a finite-index subgroup of SL(2, Z) is a congruence subgroup, extending earlier work of Hsu for subgroups of PSL(2, Z).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.0625

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zbMATH Keywords

modular groupcongruence subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Structure of modular groups and generalizations; arithmetic groups (11F06) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to group theory (20-04) Unimodular groups, congruence subgroups (group-theoretic aspects) (20H05)

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• Identifying congruence subgroups of the modular group
• A Presentation of the Groups PSL(2, p)
• Lifts of projective congruence groups

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