Cusp ramification indices in a tower of Fuchsian groups #
The ratio of compatible normalized cusp widths is a canonical positive natural number. For three nested groups this index multiplies, giving the exponent of the composite cusp map. The index is also the relative index of the two cusp stabilizers, so it does not depend on the chosen scaling.
The normalization of cusp widths follows Diamond and Shurman, A First Course in Modular Forms, §2.4.
The integral ratio between two positive normalized cusp widths is unique.
The exponent of the cusp width ratio multiplies in a subgroup tower.
The positive integer by which the cusp width grows under a subgroup inclusion, for normalized cusp data with the same representative and scaling.
Equations
- TauCeti.Subgroup.CuspDatum.widthIndex h D E hc hσ = ⋯.choose
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The smaller group's width is the cusp index times the larger group's width.
The cusp width index is the index of the cusp stabilizers. For compatible normalized
cusp data, the factor by which the width grows under Δ ≤ Γ is the relative index of Δ in the
stabilizer of the cusp in Γ, that is, [stabilizer Γ c : stabilizer Δ c]. The generator for
Δ is the n-th power of the generator for Γ, and the infinite cyclic stabilizer for Γ
contains its subgroup of n-th powers with index n.
The cusp index of the identity inclusion is one.
The cusp ramification index multiplies in a tower of subgroup inclusions.