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Finite subgroups of the extended modular group

Group Theory 2022-02-25 v3

Abstract

We show that in the extended modular group PGL(2,Z) there are exactly seven finite subgroups up to conjugacy; three subgroups of size 2, one subgroup each of size 3, 4, and 6, and the trivial subgroup of size 1.

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@article{arxiv.1802.02000,
  title  = {Finite subgroups of the extended modular group},
  author = {Gregory Dresden and Prakriti Panthi and Anukriti Shrestha and Jiahao Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.02000},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

4 pages; version 2 has a new introduction, a minor change to the statement of Proposition 1, and improved proofs of Proposition 1 and Theorems 2 and 3. Version 3 has updated bibliography and modified introduction

R2 v1 2026-06-23T00:13:04.546Z