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Silhouettes and generic properties of subgroups of the modular group

Group Theory 2021-03-01 v3

Abstract

We show how to count and randomly generate finitely generated subgroups of the modular group PSL(2,Z)\textsf{PSL}(2,\mathbb{Z}) of a given isomorphism type. We also prove that almost malnormality and non-parabolicity are negligible properties for these subgroups. The combinatorial methods developed to achieve these results bring to light a natural map, which associates with any finitely generated subgroup of PSL(2,Z)\textsf{PSL}(2,\mathbb{Z}) a graph which we call its silhouette, and which can be interpreted as a conjugacy class of free finite index subgroups of PSL(2,Z)\textsf{PSL}(2,\mathbb{Z}).

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@article{arxiv.2011.09179,
  title  = {Silhouettes and generic properties of subgroups of the modular group},
  author = {Frédérique Bassino and Cyril Nicaud and Pascal Weil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.09179},
  year   = {2021}
}

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44 pages. Revised Introduction