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Silhouettes and generic properties of subgroups of the modular group

Group Theory 2023-11-15 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

We show that the probability for a finitely generated subgroup of the modular group, of size nn, to be almost malnormal or non-parabolic, tends to 0 as nn tends to infinity -- where the notion of the size of a subgroup is based on a natural graph-theoretic representation of the subgroup. The proofs of these results rely on the combinatorial and asymptotic study of 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, 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.2311.08021,
  title  = {Silhouettes and generic properties of subgroups of the modular group},
  author = {Frédérique Bassino and Cyril Nicaud and Pascal Weil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.08021},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

31 pages. This is the second and last part of a thorough revision of arXiv:2011.09179. The first part of this revision is arXiv:2310.18923