Congruence Subgroups of Groups Commensurable with PSL$(2,\Z)$ of Genus 0 and 1
Cummins, C. J.
Experiment. Math., Tome 13 (2004) no. 1, p. 361-382 / Harvested from Project Euclid
Thompson has shown that up to conjugation there are only finitely many congruence subgroups of $\PSL(2,\R)$ of fixed genus. For $\PSL(2,\Z)$, Cox and Parry found an explicit bound for the level of a congruence subgroup in terms of its genus. This result was used by the author and Pauli to compute the congruence subgroups of $\PSL(2,\Z)$ of genus less than or equal to 24. However, the bound of Cox and Parry applies only to $\PSL(2,\Z)$. In this paper a result of Zograf is used to find a bound for the level of any congruence subgroup in terms of its genus. Using this result, a list of all congruence subgroups, up to conjugacy, of $\PSL(2,\R)$ of genus 0 and 1 is found. ¶ This tabulation is used to answer a question of Conway and Norton who asked for a complete list of genus 0 subgroups, $\overline G$, of $\PSL(2,\R)$ such that (i) $\overline G$ contains $\overline\Gamma_0(N)$ for some $N$. (ii) $\overline G$ contains the translation $z\mapsto z+k$ iff $k$ is an integer. ¶ Thompson has also shown that for fixed genus there are only finitely many subgroups of $\PSL(2,\R)$ which satisfy these conditions. We call these groups "moonshine groups.'' The list of genus 1 moonshine groups is also found. All computations were performed using Magma.
Publié le : 2004-05-14
Classification:  Congruence subgroups,  moonshine,  genus,  11F03,  11F22,  30F35
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Cummins, C. J. Congruence Subgroups of Groups Commensurable with
PSL$(2,\Z)$ of Genus 0 and 1. Experiment. Math., Tome 13 (2004) no. 1, pp.  361-382. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1103749843/