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- From: mwj@rz.uni-jena.de (Johannes Waldmann)
- Subject: SL(2,Z) fundamental domain
- Message-ID: <1992Sep06.165238.20128@rz.uni-jena.de>
- Organization: University Jena, Germany
- Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 16:52:38 GMT
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- The classical picture of the standard fundamental domain for SL(2,Z)
- and its images in the upper half plane consists of (lines and)
- semicircles with rational midpoints and radii. Is there an explicit
- formula that tells what centre points and radii do really occur?
-
- It seems that for all integer q, there are some integers p such that
- the semicircle with centre p/q and radius 1/q occurs, and all semicircles
- are of that form.
-
- Moreover, all semicircles that cross a given p/q (on the real axis),
- have radii 1/(2*q^2*k + d), k running through all integers.
- But d is not necessarily integer.
-
- Any suggestions and hints to the literature would be appreciated.
-
- Johannes Waldmann,
-
- mwj@hpux.rz.uni-jena.de -- currently: jw24@tower.york.ac.uk
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