Cusp widths under subgroup inclusion #
For normalized cusp data of Δ ≤ Γ with the same boundary point and scaling, the width for
Δ is a positive integer multiple of the width for Γ. In the corresponding coordinates,
the map of cusp quotients is therefore the power map q ↦ q ^ n. This is the local input for
computing ramification at cusps of maps between compactified Fuchsian quotients.
The integer is forced by the full stabilizers: the primitive generator for Δ lies in the
cyclic stabilizer for Γ. The argument does not require finite index of Δ in Γ.
This follows the cusp-width convention of Diamond and Shurman, A First Course in Modular Forms, §2.4.
With a common scaling, the width for a subgroup is a positive integral multiple of the width for the larger group. The integer is the exponent of the smaller cusp generator in the larger cusp stabilizer.
A positive integral multiple of a cusp width bounds that width from above.
The larger group's q-coordinate is the n-th power of the smaller group's coordinate
when their normalized widths differ by the factor n.