Modular Group Gamma

The group of all Möbius transformations of the form

(1)

where a, b, c, and d are integers with . The group can be represented by the matrix

(2)

where . Every can be expressed in the form

(3)

where

(4)
(5)

although the representation is not unique (Apostol 1997, pp. 28-29).

 

Klein's Absolute Invariant, Möbius Transformation, Modular Group Gamma0, Modular Group Lambda, Theta Functions, Unimodular Transformation




References

Apostol, T. M. "The Modular Group and Modular Functions." Ch. 2 in Modular Functions and Dirichlet Series in Number Theory, 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 17 and 26-46, 1997.

Borwein, J. M. and Borwein, P. B. Pi & the AGM: A Study in Analytic Number Theory and Computational Complexity. New York: Wiley, p. 113, 1987.