nLab modular group (changes)

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Context

Manifolds and cobordisms

Group Theory

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Idea

By the modular group one means alternatively

hence either the domain or codomain of the quotient map

SL 2(ℤ)⟶SL 2(ℤ)/{±1}≕PSL 2(ℤ). SL_2(\mathbb{Z}) \longrightarrow SL_2(\mathbb{Z})/\{\pm 1\} \eqqcolon PSL_2(\mathbb{Z}) \,.

References

  • Morris Newman: The Classical Modular Group and Related Groups, chapter VIII in: Integral Matrices, Academic Press (1972)

  • Jean-Pierre Serre, §VII.1: A Course in Arithmetic, Graduate Texts in Mathematics 7, Springer (1973) [[doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-9884-4](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9884-4), pdf]

  • William Stein, chapter 1 of: Modular Forms, a Computational Approach, Graduate Studies in Mathematics 79, AMS (2007) [[doi:10.1090/gsm/079](https://doi.org/10.1090/gsm/079)]

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