The modular group \(\SL_2(\ZZ)\)#
AUTHORS:
Niles Johnson (2010-08): github issue #3893:
random_element()
should pass on*args
and**kwds
.
- class sage.modular.arithgroup.congroup_sl2z.SL2Z_class#
Bases:
Gamma0_class
The full modular group \(\SL_2(\ZZ)\), regarded as a congruence subgroup of itself.
- is_subgroup(right)#
Return True if self is a subgroup of right.
EXAMPLES:
sage: SL2Z.is_subgroup(SL2Z) True sage: SL2Z.is_subgroup(Gamma1(1)) True sage: SL2Z.is_subgroup(Gamma0(6)) False
- random_element(bound=100, *args, **kwds)#
Return a random element of \(\SL_2(\ZZ)\) with entries whose absolute value is strictly less than bound (default 100). Additional arguments and keywords are passed to the random_element method of ZZ.
(Algorithm: Generate a random pair of integers at most bound. If they are not coprime, throw them away and start again. If they are, find an element of \(\SL_2(\ZZ)\) whose bottom row is that, and left-multiply it by \(\begin{pmatrix} 1 & w \\ 0 & 1\end{pmatrix}\) for an integer \(w\) randomly chosen from a small enough range that the answer still has entries at most bound.)
It is, unfortunately, not true that all elements of SL2Z with entries < bound appear with equal probability; those with larger bottom rows are favoured, because there are fewer valid possibilities for w.
EXAMPLES:
sage: s = SL2Z.random_element() sage: s.parent() is SL2Z True sage: all(a in range(-99, 100) for a in list(s)) True sage: S = set() sage: while len(S) < 180: ....: s = SL2Z.random_element(5) ....: assert all(a in range(-4, 5) for a in list(s)) ....: assert s.parent() is SL2Z ....: assert s in SL2Z ....: S.add(s)
Passes extra positional or keyword arguments through:
sage: SL2Z.random_element(5, distribution='1/n').parent() is SL2Z True
- reduce_cusp(c)#
Return the unique reduced cusp equivalent to c under the action of self. Always returns Infinity, since there is only one equivalence class of cusps for \(SL_2(Z)\).
EXAMPLES:
sage: SL2Z.reduce_cusp(Cusps(-1/4)) Infinity
- sage.modular.arithgroup.congroup_sl2z.is_SL2Z(x)#
Return True if x is the modular group \(\SL_2(\ZZ)\).
EXAMPLES:
sage: from sage.modular.arithgroup.all import is_SL2Z sage: is_SL2Z(SL2Z) True sage: is_SL2Z(Gamma0(6)) False