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Identifying congruence subgroups of the modular group
Author(s):
Tim
Hsu
Journal:
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.
124
(1996),
1351-1359.
MSC (1991):
Primary 20H05;
Secondary 20F05
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Abstract:
We exhibit a simple test (Theorem 2.4) for determining if a given (classical) modular subgroup is a congruence subgroup, and give a detailed description of its implementation (Theorem 3.1). In an appendix, we also describe a more ``invariant'' and arithmetic congruence test.
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Additional Information:
Tim
Hsu
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544
Address at time of publication:
Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Email:
timhsu@math.princeton.edu, timhsu@math.lsa.umich.edu
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03496-X
PII:
S 0002-9939(96)03496-X
Keywords:
Congruence subgroups,
classical modular group
Received by editor(s):
September 1, 1994
Additional Notes:
The author was supported by an NSF graduate fellowship and DOE GAANN grant \#P200A10022.A03.
Communicated by:
Ronald M. Solomon
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1996,
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