Statistics of subgroups of the modular group
Abstract
We count the finitely generated subgroups of the modular group . More precisely: each such subgroup can be represented by its Stallings graph , we consider the number of vertices of to be the size of and we count the subgroups of size . Since an index subgroup has size , our results generalize the known results on the enumeration of the finite index subgroups of . We give asymptotic equivalents for the number of finitely generated subgroups of , as well as of the number of finite index subgroups, free subgroups and free finite index subgroups. We also give the expected value of the isomorphism type of a size subgroup and prove a large deviations statement concerning this value. Similar results are proved for finite index and for free subgroups. Finally, we show how to efficiently generate uniformly at random a size subgroup (resp. finite index subgroup, free subgroup) of .
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Cite
@article{arxiv.2004.00437,
title = {Statistics of subgroups of the modular group},
author = {Frédérique Bassino and Cyril Nicaud and Pascal Weil},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.00437},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
62 pages. Typos fixed. Lemma 2.8, which was not correct as stated, has been reworked