<h3>13 <span class="Heading">Congruence Subgroups, Cuspidal Cohomology and Hecke Operators</span></h3>
<p>In this chapter we explain how HAP can be used to make computions about modular forms associated to congruence subgroups <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span> of <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z)</span>. Also, in Subsection 10.8 onwards, we demonstrate cohomology computations for the <em>Picard group</em> <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z[i])</span>, some <em>Bianchi groups</em> <span class="SimpleMath">PSL_2(cal O_-d)</span> where <span class="SimpleMath">cal O_d</span> is the ring of integers of <span class="SimpleMath">Q(sqrt-d)</span> for square free positive integer <span class="SimpleMath">d</span>, and some other groups of the form <span class="SimpleMath">SL_m(cal O)</span>, <span class="SimpleMath">GL_m(cal O)</span>, <span class="SimpleMath">PSL_m(cal O)</span>, <span class="SimpleMath">PGL_m(cal O)</span>, for <span class="SimpleMath">m=2,3,4</span> and certain <span class="SimpleMath">cal O= Z, cal O_-d</span>.</p>
<p>We begin by recalling the Eichler-Shimura isomorphism <a href="chapBib.html#biBeichler">[Eic57]</a><a href="chapBib.html#biBshimura">[Shi59]</a></p>
<p>which relates the cohomology of groups to the theory of modular forms associated to a finite index subgroup <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span> of <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z)</span>. In subsequent sections we explain how to compute with the right-hand side of the isomorphism. But first, for completeness, let us define the terms on the left-hand side.</p>
<p>Let <span class="SimpleMath">N</span> be a positive integer. A subgroup <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span> of <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z)</span> is said to be a <em>congruence subgroup</em> of level <span class="SimpleMath">N</span> if it contains the kernel of the canonical homomorphism <span class="SimpleMath">π_N: SL_2( Z) → SL_2( Z/N Z)</span>. So any congruence subgroup is of finite index in <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z)</span>, but the converse is not true.</p>
<p>One congruence subgroup of particular interest is the group <span class="SimpleMath">Γ_1(N)=ker(π_N)</span>, known as the <em>principal congruence subgroup</em> of level <span class="SimpleMath">N</span>. Another congruence subgroup of particular interest is the group <span class="SimpleMath">Γ_0(N)</span> of those matrices that project to upper triangular matrices in <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z/N Z)</span>.</p>
<p>A <em>modular form</em> of weight <span class="SimpleMath">k</span> for a congruence subgroup <spanclass="SimpleMath">Γ</span> is a complex valued function on the upper-half plane, <span class="SimpleMath">f: frakh}={z∈ C : Re(z)>0} → C</span>, satisfying:</p>
<ul>
<li><p><span class="SimpleMath">displaystyle f(fracaz+bcz+d) = (cz+d)^k f(z)</span> for <span class="SimpleMath">(beginarraylla&b c &d endarray) ∈ Γ</span>,</p>
</li>
<li><p><span class="SimpleMath">f</span> is `holomorphic' on the extended upper-half planefrakh^∗ = frakh ∪ Q ∪ {∞} obtained from the upper-half plane by `adjoining a point at each cusp'.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>The collection of all weight <span class="SimpleMath">k</span> modular forms for <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span> form a vector space <span class="SimpleMath">M_k(Γ)</span> over <span class="SimpleMath">C</span>.</p>
<p>A modular form <span class="SimpleMath">f</span> is said to be a <em>cusp form</em> if <span class="SimpleMath">f(∞)=0</span>. The collection of all weight <span class="SimpleMath">k</span> cusp forms for <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span> form a vector subspace <span class="SimpleMath">S_k(Γ)</span>. There is a decomposition</p>
<p>involving a summand <span class="SimpleMath">E_k(Γ)</span> known as the <em>Eisenstein space</em>. See <a href="chapBib.html#biBstein">[Ste07]</a> for further introductory details on modular forms.</p>
<p>The Eichler-Shimura isomorphism is more than an isomorphism of vector spaces. It is an isomorphism of Hecke modules: both sides admit notions of <em>Hecke operators</em>, and the isomorphism preserves these operators. The bar on the left-hand side of the isomorphism denotes complex conjugation, or <em>anti-holomorphic</em> forms. See <a href="chapBib.html#biBwieser">[Wie78]</a> for a full account of the isomorphism.</p>
<p>On the right-hand side of the isomorphism, the <span class="SimpleMath">ZΓ</span>-module <span class="SimpleMath">P_ C(k-2)⊂ C[x,y]</span> denotes the space of homogeneous degree <span class="SimpleMath">k-2</span> polynomials with action of <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span> given by</p>
<p class="pcenter">\left(\begin{array}{ll}a&b\\ c &d \end{array}\right)\cdot p(x,y) = p(dx-by,-cx+ay)\ .</p>
<p>In particular <span class="SimpleMath">P_ C(0)= C</span> is the trivial module. Below we shall compute with the integral analogue <span class="SimpleMath">P_ Z(k-2) ⊂ Z[x,y]</span>.</p>
<p>In the following sections we explain how to use the right-hand side of the Eichler-Shimura isomorphism to compute eigenvalues of the Hecke operators restricted to the subspace <span class="SimpleMath">S_k(Γ)</span> of cusp forms.</p>
<h4>13.2 <span class="Heading">Generators for <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z)</span> and the cubic tree</span></h4>
<p>The matrices <span class="SimpleMath">S=(beginarrayrr0&-1 1 &0 endarray)</span> and <span class="SimpleMath">T=(beginarrayrr1&1 0 &1 endarray)</span> generate <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z)</span> and it is not difficult to devise an algorithm for expressing an arbitrary integer matrix <span class="SimpleMath">A</span> of determinant <span class="SimpleMath">1</span> as a word in <span class="SimpleMath">S</span>, <span class="SimpleMath">T</span> and their inverses. The following illustrates such an algorithm.</p>
<p>It is convenient to introduce the matrix <span class="SimpleMath">U=ST = (beginarrayrr0&-1 1 &1 endarray)</span>. The matrices <span class="SimpleMath">S</span> and <span class="SimpleMath">U</span> also generate <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z)</span>. In fact we have a free presentation <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z)= ⟨ S,U | S^4=U^6=1, S^2=U^3 ⟩</span>.</p>
<p>The <em>cubic tree</em> <span class="SimpleMath">cal T</span> is a tree (<em>i.e.</em> a <span class="SimpleMath">1</span>-dimensional contractible regular CW-complex) with countably infinitely many edges in which each vertex has degree <span class="SimpleMath">3</span>. We can realize the cubic tree <span class="SimpleMath">cal T</span> by taking the left cosets of <span class="SimpleMath">cal U=⟨ U⟩</span> in <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z)</span> as vertices, and joining cosets <span class="SimpleMath">xcal U</span> and <span class="SimpleMath">ycal U</span> by an edge if, and only if, <span class="SimpleMath">x^-1y ∈ cal U Scal U</span>. Thus the vertex <span class="SimpleMath">cal U</span> is joined to <span class="SimpleMath">Scal U</span>, <span class="SimpleMath">UScal U</span> and <span class="SimpleMath">U^2Scal U</span>. The vertices of this tree are in one-to-one correspondence with all reduced words in <span class="SimpleMath">S</span>, <span class="SimpleMath">U</span> and <span class="SimpleMath">U^2</span> that, apart from the identity, end in <span class="SimpleMath">S</span>.</p>
<p>From our realization of the cubic tree <span class="SimpleMath">cal T</span> we see that <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z)</span> acts on <span class="SimpleMath">cal T</span> in such a way that each vertex is stabilized by a cyclic subgroup conjugate to <span class="SimpleMath">cal U=⟨ U⟩</span> and each edge is stabilized by a cyclic subgroup conjugate to <span class="SimpleMath">cal S =⟨ S ⟩</span>.</p>
<p>In order to store this action of <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z)</span> on the cubic tree <span class="SimpleMath">cal T</span> we just need to record the following finite amount of information.</p>
<p><img src="images/fdsl2.png" align="center" width="350" alt="Information for the cubic tree"/></p>
<h4>13.3 <span class="Heading">One-dimensional fundamental domains and
generators for congruence subgroups</span></h4>
<p>The modular group <span class="SimpleMath">cal M=PSL_2( Z)</span> is isomorphic, as an abstract group, to the free product <span class="SimpleMath">Z_2∗ Z_3</span>. By the Kurosh subgroup theorem, any finite index subgroup <span class="SimpleMath">M ⊂ cal M</span> is isomorphic to the free product of finitely many copies of <span class="SimpleMath">Z_2</span>s, <span class="SimpleMath">Z_3</span>s and <span class="SimpleMath">Z</span>s. A subset <span class="SimpleMath">underline x ⊂ M</span> is an <em>independent</em> set of subgroup generators if <span class="SimpleMath">M</span> is the free product of the cyclic subgroups <span class="SimpleMath"><x ></span> as <span class="SimpleMath">x</span> runs over <span class="SimpleMath">underline x</span>. Let us say that a set of elements in <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z)</span> is <em>projectively independent</em> if it maps injectively onto an independent set of subgroup generators <span class="SimpleMath">underline x⊂ cal M</span>. The generating set <span class="SimpleMath">{S,U}</span> for <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z)</span> given in the preceding section is projectively independent.</p>
<p>We are interested in constructing a set of generators for a given congruence subgroup <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span>. If a small generating set for <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span> is required then we should aim to construct one which is close to being projectively independent.</p>
<p>It is useful to invoke the following general result which follows from a perturbation result about free <span class="SimpleMath">ZG</span>-resolutons in <a href="chapBib.html#biBellisharrisskoldberg">[EHS06, Theorem 2]</a> and an old observation of John Milnor that a free <span class="SimpleMath">ZG</span>-resolution can be realized as the cellular chain complex of a CW-complex if it can be so realized in low dimensions.</p>
<p><strong class="button">Theorem.</strong> Let <span class="SimpleMath">X</span> be a contractible CW-complex on which a group <span class="SimpleMath">G</span> acts by permuting cells. The cellular chain complex <span class="SimpleMath">C_∗ X</span> is a <span class="SimpleMath">ZG</span>-resolution of <span class="SimpleMath">Z</span> which typically is not free. Let <span class="SimpleMath">[e^n]</span> denote the orbit of the n-cell <span class="SimpleMath">e^n</span> under the action. Let <span class="SimpleMath">G^e^n ≤ G</span> denote the stabilizer subgroup of <span class="SimpleMath">e^n</span>, in which group elements are not required to stabilize <span class="SimpleMath">e^n</span> point-wise. Let <span class="SimpleMath">Y_e^n</span> denote a contractible CW-complex on which <span class="SimpleMath">G^e^n</span> acts cellularly and freely. Then there exists a contractible CW-complex <span class="SimpleMath">W</span> on which <span class="SimpleMath">G</span> acts cellularly and freely, and in which the orbits of <span class="SimpleMath">n</span>-cells are labelled by <span class="SimpleMath">[e^p]⊗ [f^q]</span> where <span class="SimpleMath">p+q=n</span> and <span class="SimpleMath">[e^p]</span> ranges over the <span class="SimpleMath">G</span>-orbits of <span class="SimpleMath">p</span>-cells in <span class="SimpleMath">X</span>, <span class="SimpleMath">[f^q]</span> ranges over the <span class="SimpleMath">G^e^p</span>-orbits of <span class="SimpleMath">q</span>-cells in <span class="SimpleMath">Y_e^p</span>.</p>
<p>Let <span class="SimpleMath">W</span> be as in the theorem. Then the quotient CW-complex <span class="SimpleMath">B_G=W/G</span> is a classifying space for <span class="SimpleMath">G</span>. Let <span class="SimpleMath">T</span> denote a maximal tree in the <span class="SimpleMath">1</span>-skeleton <span class="SimpleMath">B^1_G</span>. Basic geometric group theory tells us that the <span class="SimpleMath">1</span>-cells in <span class="SimpleMath">B^1_G∖ T</span> correspond to a generating set for <span class="SimpleMath">G</span>.</p>
<p>Suppose we wish to compute a set of generators for a principal congruence subgroup <span class="SimpleMath">Γ=Γ_1(N)</span>. In the above theorem take <span class="SimpleMath">X=cal T</span> to be the cubic tree, and note that <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span> acts freely on <span class="SimpleMath">cal T</span> and thus that <span class="SimpleMath">W=cal T</span>. To determine the <span class="SimpleMath">1</span>-cells of <span class="SimpleMath">B_Γ∖ T</span> we need to determine a cellular subspace <span class="SimpleMath">D_Γ ⊂ cal T</span> whose images under the action of <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span> cover <span class="SimpleMath">cal T</span> and are pairwise either disjoint or identical. The subspace <span class="SimpleMath">D_Γ</span> will not be a CW-complex as it won't be closed, but it can be chosen to be connected, and hence contractible. We callD_Γ a fundamental region for Γ. We denote by mathring D_Γ the largest CW-subcomplex of D_Γ. The vertices of mathring D_Γ are the same as the vertices of D_Γ. Thus mathring D_Γ is a subtree of the cubic tree with |Γ|/6 vertices. For each vertex v in the tree mathring D_Γ define η(v)=3 - degree(v). Then the number of generators for Γ will be (1/2)∑_v∈ mathring D_Γ η(v).
<p>The following commands determine projectively independent generators for <span class="SimpleMath">Γ_1(6)</span> and display <span class="SimpleMath">mathring D_Γ_1(6)</span>. The subgroup <span class="SimpleMath">Γ_1(6)</span> is free on <span class="SimpleMath">13</span> generators.</p>
<p><img src="images/pctree6.gif" align="center" width="350" alt="Fundamental region in the cubic tree"/></p>
<p>An alternative but very related approach to computing generators of congruence subgroups of <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z)</span> is described in <a href="chapBib.html#biBkulkarni">[Kul91]</a>.</p>
<p>The congruence subgroup <span class="SimpleMath">Γ_0(N)</span> does not act freely on the vertices of <span class="SimpleMath">cal T</span>, and so one needs to incorporate a generator for the cyclic stabilizer group according to the above theorem. Alternatively, we can replace the cubic tree by a six-fold cover <span class="SimpleMath">cal T' on whose vertex set Γ_0(N) acts freely. This alternative approach will produce a redundant set of generators. The following commands display mathring D_Γ_0(39) for a fundamental region in cal T'</span>. They also use the corresponding generating set for <span class="SimpleMath">Γ_0(39)</span>, involving <span class="SimpleMath">18</span> generators, to compute the abelianization <span class="SimpleMath">Γ_0(39)^ab= Z_2 ⊕ Z_3^2 ⊕ Z^9</span>. The abelianization shows that any generating set has at least <span class="SimpleMath">11</span> generators.</p>
<p><img src="images/g0tree39.gif" align="center" width="350" alt="Fundamental region in the cubic tree"/></p>
<p>Note that to compute <span class="SimpleMath">D_Γ</span> one only needs to be able to test whether a given matrix lies in <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span> or not. Given an inclusion <span class="SimpleMath">Γ'⊂ Γ of congruence subgroups, it is straightforward to use the trees mathring D_Γ'</span> and <span class="SimpleMath">mathring D_Γ</span> to compute a system of coset representative for <span class="SimpleMath">Γ'∖ Γ.
<h4>13.4 <span class="Heading">Cohomology of congruence subgroups</span></h4>
<p>To compute the cohomology <span class="SimpleMath">H^n(Γ,A)</span> of a congruence subgroup <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span> with coefficients in a <span class="SimpleMath">ZΓ</span>-module <span class="SimpleMath">A</span> we need to construct <span class="SimpleMath">n+1</span> terms of a free <span class="SimpleMath">ZΓ</span>-resolution of <span class="SimpleMath">Z</span>. We can do this by first using perturbation techniques (as described in <a href="chapBib.html#biBbuiellis">[BE14]</a>) to combine the cubic tree with resolutions for the cyclic groups of order <span class="SimpleMath">4</span> and <span class="SimpleMath">6</span> in order to produce a free <span class="SimpleMath">ZG</span>-resolution <span class="SimpleMath">R_∗</span> for <span class="SimpleMath">G=SL_2( Z)</span>. This resolution is also a free <span class="SimpleMath">ZΓ</span>-resolution with each term of rank</p>
<p>This computation establishes that the space <span class="SimpleMath">M_2(Γ_0(39))</span> of weight <span class="SimpleMath">2</span> modular forms is of dimension <span class="SimpleMath">9</span>.</p>
<p>The following commands show that <span class="SimpleMath">rank_ ZΓ_0(39) R_1 = 112</span> but that it is possible to apply `Tietze like' simplifications to R_∗ to obtain a free ZΓ_0(39)-resolution T_∗ with rank_ ZΓ_0(39) T_1 = 11. It is more efficient to work with T_∗ when making cohomology computations with coefficients in a module A of large rank.
<div class="example"><pre>
<span class="GAPprompt">gap></span> <span class="GAPinput">S!.dimension(1);</span>
112
<span class="GAPprompt">gap></span> <span class="GAPinput">T:=TietzeReducedResolution(S);</span>
Resolution of length 2 in characteristic 0 for CongruenceSubgroupGamma0(
39) .
<p>This computation establishes that the space <span class="SimpleMath">M_10(Γ_0(39))</span> of weight <span class="SimpleMath">10</span> modular forms is of dimension <span class="SimpleMath">84</span>, and <span class="SimpleMath">M_11(Γ_0(39))</span> is of dimension <span class="SimpleMath">0</span>. (There are never any modular forms of odd weight, and so <span class="SimpleMath">M_k(Γ)=0</span> for all odd <span class="SimpleMath">k</span> and any congruence subgroup <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span>.)</p>
<h5>13.4-1 <span class="Heading">Cohomology with rational coefficients</span></h5>
<p>To calculate cohomology <span class="SimpleMath">H^n(Γ,A)</span> with coefficients in a <span class="SimpleMath">QΓ</span>-module <span class="SimpleMath">A</span> it suffices to construct a resolution of <span class="SimpleMath">Z</span> by non-free <span class="SimpleMath">ZΓ</span>-modules where <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span> acts with finite stabilizer groups on each module in the resolution. Computing over <span class="SimpleMath">Q</span> is computationally less expensive than computing over <span class="SimpleMath">Z</span>. The following commands first compute <span class="SimpleMath">H^1(Γ_0(39), Q) = H_1(Γ_0(39), Q)= Q^9</span>. As a larger example, they then compute <span class="SimpleMath">H^1(Γ_0(2^13-1), Q) = Q^1365</span> where <span class="SimpleMath">Γ_0(2^13-1)</span> has index <span class="SimpleMath">8192</span> in <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z)</span>.</p>
<div class="example"><pre>
<span class="GAPprompt">gap></span> <span class="GAPinput">K:=ContractibleGcomplex("SL(2,Z)");</span>
Non-free resolution in characteristic 0 for SL(2,Integers) .
<span class="GAPprompt">gap></span> <span class="GAPinput">gamma:=HAP_CongruenceSubgroupGamma0(39);;</span>
<span class="GAPprompt">gap></span> <span class="GAPinput">KK:=NonFreeResolutionFiniteSubgroup(K,gamma);</span>
Non-free resolution in characteristic 0 for <matrix group with
18 generators> .
<p>To define and compute cuspidal cohomology we consider the action of <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z)</span> on the upper-half plane <span class="SimpleMath">frak h</span> given by</p>
<p class="pcenter">\left(\begin{array}{ll}a&b\\ c &d \end{array}\right) z =
\frac{az +b}{cz+d}\ .</p>
<p>A standard 'fundamental domain' for this action is the region</p>
<p><img src="images/filename-1.png" align="center" width="450" alt="Fundamental domain in the upper-half plane"/></p>
<p>The action factors through an action of <span class="SimpleMath">PSL_2( Z) =SL_2( Z)/⟨ (beginarrayrr-1&0 0 &-1 endarray)⟩</span>. The images of <span class="SimpleMath">D</span> under the action of <span class="SimpleMath">PSL_2( Z)</span> cover the upper-half plane, and any two images have at most a single point in common. The possible common points are the bottom left-hand corner point which is stabilized by <span class="SimpleMath">⟨ U⟩</span>, and the bottom middle point which is stabilized by <span class="SimpleMath">⟨ S⟩</span>.</p>
<p>A congruence subgroup <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span> has a `fundamental domain' D_Γ equal to a union of finitely many copies of D, one copy for each coset in Γ∖ SL_2( Z). The quotient space X=Γ∖ frak h is not compact, and can be compactified in several ways. We are interested in the Borel-Serre compactification. This is a space X^BS for which there is an inclusion X↪ X^BS and this inclusion is a homotopy equivalence. One defines the boundary∂ X^BS = X^BS - X and uses the inclusion ∂ X^BS ↪ X^BS ≃ X to define the cuspidal cohomology group, over the ground ring C, as
<p>Strictly speaking, this is the definition of <em>interior cohomology</em> <span class="SimpleMath">H_!^n(Γ,P_ C(k-2))</span> which in general contains the cuspidal cohomology as a subgroup. However, for congruence subgroups of <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z)</span> there is equality <span class="SimpleMath">H_!^n(Γ,P_ C(k-2)) = H_cusp^n(Γ,P_ C(k-2))</span>.</p>
<p>Working over <span class="SimpleMath">C</span> has the advantage of avoiding the technical issue that <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span> does not necessarily act freely on <span class="SimpleMath">frak h</span> since there are points with finite cyclic stabilizer groups in <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z)</span>. But it has the disadvantage of losing information about torsion in cohomology. So HAP confronts the issue by working with a contractible CW-complex <span class="SimpleMath">tilde X^BS</span> on which <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span> acts freely, and <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span>-equivariant inclusion <span class="SimpleMath">∂ tilde X^BS ↪ tilde X^BS</span>. The definition of cuspidal cohomology that we use, which coincides with the above definition when working over <span class="SimpleMath">C</span>, is</p>
<p>The following data is recorded and, using perturbation theory, is combined with free resolutions for <span class="SimpleMath">C_4</span> and <span class="SimpleMath">C_6</span> to constuct <span class="SimpleMath">tilde X^BS</span>.</p>
<p><img src="images/filename-2.png" align="center" width="450" alt="Borel-Serre compactified fundamental domain in the upper-half plane"/></p>
<p>From the Eichler-Shimura isomorphism and the already calculated dimension of <span class="SimpleMath">M_2(Γ_0(39))≅ C^9</span>, we deduce from this cuspidal cohomology that the space <span class="SimpleMath">S_2(Γ_0(39))</span> of cuspidal weight <span class="SimpleMath">2</span> forms is of dimension <span class="SimpleMath">3</span>, and the Eisenstein space <span class="SimpleMath">E_2(Γ_0(39))≅ C^3</span> is of dimension <span class="SimpleMath">3</span>.</p>
<p>The following commands show that the space <span class="SimpleMath">S_4(Γ_0(39))</span> of cuspidal weight <span class="SimpleMath">4</span> forms is of dimension <span class="SimpleMath">12</span>.</p>
<p>with <span class="SimpleMath">α</span>, <span class="SimpleMath">β</span> functorial maps, and <span class="SimpleMath">tr</span> the transfer map. We define the composite <span class="SimpleMath">T_g=tr ∘ α ∘ β: H^n(Γ, Z) → H^n(Γ, Z)</span> to be the <em> Hecke component </em> determined by <span class="SimpleMath">g</span>.</p>
<p>For <span class="SimpleMath">Γ=Γ_0(N)</span>, prime integer <span class="SimpleMath">p</span> coprime to <span class="SimpleMath">N</span>, and cohomology degree <span class="SimpleMath">n=1</span> we define the <em>Hecke operator</em> <span class="SimpleMath">T_p =T_g</span> where <span class="SimpleMath">g=(beginarraycc1&00&pendarray)</span>. Further details on this description of Hecke operators can be found in <a href="chapBib.html#biBstein">[Ste07, Appendix by P. Gunnells]</a>.</p>
<p>The following commands compute <span class="SimpleMath">T_2</span> and <span class="SimpleMath">T_5</span> and <span class="SimpleMath">Γ=Γ_0(39)</span>. The commands also compute the eigenvalues of these two Hecke operators. The final command confirms that <span class="SimpleMath">T_2</span> and <span class="SimpleMath">T_5</span> commute. (It is a fact that <span class="SimpleMath">T_pT_q=T_qT_p</span> for all <span class="SimpleMath">p,q</span>.)</p>
<h4>13.7 <span class="Heading">Hecke operators on forms of weight <span class="SimpleMath">≥ 2</span></span></h4>
<p>The above definition of Hecke operator <span class="SimpleMath">T_p</span> for <span class="SimpleMath">Γ=Γ_0(N)</span> extends to a Hecke operator <span class="SimpleMath">T_p: H^1(Γ,P_ Q(k-2) ) → H^1(Γ,P_ Q(k-2) )</span> for <span class="SimpleMath">k≥ 2</span>. We work over the rationals since that is a setting of much interest. The following commands compute the matrix of <span class="SimpleMath">T_2: H^1(Γ,P_ Q(k-2) ) → H^1(Γ,P_ Q(k-2) )</span> for <span class="SimpleMath">Γ=SL_2( Z)</span> and <span class="SimpleMath">k=4</span>;</p>
<h4>13.8 <span class="Heading">Reconstructing modular forms from cohomology computations</span></h4>
<p>Given a modular form <span class="SimpleMath">f: frak h → C</span> associated to a congruence subgroup <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span>, and given a compact edge <span class="SimpleMath">e</span> in the tessellation of <span class="SimpleMath">frak h</span> (<em>i.e.</em> an edge in the cubic tree <span class="SimpleMath">cal T</span>) arising from the above fundamental domain for <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2( Z)</span>, we can evaluate</p>
<p class="pcenter">\int_e f(z)\,dz \ .</p>
<p>In this way we obtain a cochain <span class="SimpleMath">f_1: C_1(cal T) → C</span> in <span class="SimpleMath">Hom_ ZΓ(C_1(cal T), C)</span> representing a cohomology class <span class="SimpleMath">c(f) ∈ H^1( Hom_ ZΓ(C_∗(cal T), C) ) = H^1(Γ, C)</span>. The correspondence <span class="SimpleMath">f↦ c(f)</span> underlies the Eichler-Shimura isomorphism. Hecke operators can be used to recover modular forms from cohomology classes.</p>
<p>Let <span class="SimpleMath">Γ=Γ_0(N)</span>. The above defined Hecke operators restrict to operators on cuspidal cohomology. On the left-hand side of the Eichler-Shimura isomorphism Hecke operators restrict to operators <span class="SimpleMath">T_s: S_2(Γ) → S_2(Γ)</span> for <span class="SimpleMath">s≥ 1</span>.</p>
<p>Consider the function <span class="SimpleMath">q=q(z)=e^2π i z</span> which is holomorphic on <span class="SimpleMath">C</span>. For any modular form <span class="SimpleMath">f(z) ∈ M_k(Γ)</span> there are numbers <span class="SimpleMath">a_s</span> such that</p>
<p>for all <span class="SimpleMath">z∈ frak h</span>. The form <span class="SimpleMath">f</span> is a cusp form if <span class="SimpleMath">a_0=0</span>.</p>
<p>A non-zero cusp form <span class="SimpleMath">f∈ S_2(Γ)</span> is a cusp <em>eigenform</em> if it is simultaneously an eigenvector for the Hecke operators <span class="SimpleMath">T_s</span> for all <span class="SimpleMath">s =1,2,3,⋯</span> coprime to the level <span class="SimpleMath">N</span>. A cusp eigenform is said to be <em>normalized</em> if its coefficient <span class="SimpleMath">a_1=1</span>. It turns out that if <span class="SimpleMath">f</span> is normalized then the coefficient <span class="SimpleMath">a_s</span> is an eigenvalue for <span class="SimpleMath">T_s</span> (see for instance <a href="chapBib.html#biBstein">[Ste07]</a> for details). It can be shown <a href="chapBib.html#biBatkinlehner">[AL70]</a> that <span class="SimpleMath">S_2(Γ_0(N))</span> admits a "basis constructed from eigenforms".</p>
<p>This all implies that, in principle, we can construct an approximation to an explicit basis for the space <span class="SimpleMath">S_2(Γ_0(N))</span> of cusp forms by computing eigenvalues for Hecke operators.</p>
<p>Suppose that we would like a basis for <span class="SimpleMath">S_2(Γ_0(11))</span>. The following commands first show that <span class="SimpleMath">H^1_cusp(Γ_0(11), Z)= Z⊕ Z</span> from which we deduce that <span class="SimpleMath">S_2(Γ_0(11)) = C</span> is <span class="SimpleMath">1</span>-dimensional and thus admits a basis of eigenforms. Then eigenvalues of Hecke operators are calculated to establish that the modular form</p>
<p>For a normalized eigenform <span class="SimpleMath">f=1 + ∑_s=2^∞ a_sq^s</span> the coefficients <span class="SimpleMath">a_s</span> with <span class="SimpleMath">s</span> a composite integer can be expressed in terms of the coefficients <span class="SimpleMath">a_p</span> for prime <span class="SimpleMath">p</span>. If <span class="SimpleMath">r,s</span> are coprime then <span class="SimpleMath">T_rs =T_rT_s</span>. If <span class="SimpleMath">p</span> is a prime that is not a divisor of the level <span class="SimpleMath">N</span> of <span class="SimpleMath">Γ</span> then <span class="SimpleMath">a_p^m =a_p^m-1}a_p - p a_p^m-2}.</span> If the prime <span class="SimpleMath">p</span> divides <span class="SimpleMath">N</span> then <span class="SimpleMath">a_p^m = (a_p)^m</span>. It thus suffices to compute the coefficients <span class="SimpleMath">a_p</span> for prime integers <span class="SimpleMath">p</span> only.</p>
<p>The following commands establish that <span class="SimpleMath">S_12(SL_2( Z))</span> has a basis consisting of one cusp eigenform</p>
<p>To describe the action we introduce the symbol <span class="SimpleMath">j</span> satisfying <span class="SimpleMath">j^2=-1</span>, <span class="SimpleMath">ij=-ji</span> and write <span class="SimpleMath">z+tj</span> instead of <span class="SimpleMath">(z,t)</span>. The action is given by</p>
<p>A standard 'fundamental domain' <span class="SimpleMath">D</span> for this action is the following region (with some of the boundary points removed).</p>
<p><img src="images/picarddomain.png" align="center" width="350" alt="Fundamental domain for the Picard group"/></p>
<p>The four bottom vertices of <span class="SimpleMath">D</span> are <span class="SimpleMath">a = -frac12 +frac12i +fracsqrt2}2j</span>, <span class="SimpleMath">b = -frac12 +fracsqrt3}2j</span>, <span class="SimpleMath">c = frac12 +fracsqrt3}2j</span>, <span class="SimpleMath">d = frac12 +frac12i +fracsqrt2}2j</span>.</p>
<p>The upper-half space <span class="SimpleMath">frak h^3</span> can be retracted onto a <span class="SimpleMath">2</span>-dimensional subspace <span class="SimpleMath">cal T ⊂ frak h^3</span>. The space <span class="SimpleMath">cal T</span> is a contractible <span class="SimpleMath">2</span>-dimensional regular CW-complex, and the action of the Picard group <span class="SimpleMath">G</span> restricts to a cellular action of <span class="SimpleMath">G</span> on <span class="SimpleMath">cal T</span>.</p>
<p>Using perturbation techniques, the <span class="SimpleMath">2</span>-complex <span class="SimpleMath">cal T</span> can be combined with free resolutions for the cell stabilizer groups to contruct a regular CW-complex <span class="SimpleMath">X</span> on which the Picard group <span class="SimpleMath">G</span> acts freely. The following commands compute the first few terms of the free <span class="SimpleMath">ZG</span>-resolution <span class="SimpleMath">R_∗ =C_∗ X</span>. Then <span class="SimpleMath">R_∗</span> is used to compute</p>
<p>We can also compute the cohomology of <span class="SimpleMath">G=SL_2( Z[i])</span> with coefficients in a module such as the module <span class="SimpleMath">P_ Z[i](k)</span> of degree <span class="SimpleMath">k</span> homogeneous polynomials with coefficients in <span class="SimpleMath">Z[i]</span> and with the action described above. For instance, the following commands compute</p>
<p>The <em>Bianchi groups</em> are the groups <span class="SimpleMath">G=PSL_2(cal O_-d)</span> where <span class="SimpleMath">d</span> is a square free positive integer and <span class="SimpleMath">cal O_-d</span> is the ring of integers of the imaginary quadratic field <span class="SimpleMath">Q(sqrt-d)</span>. More explicitly,</p>
<p>These groups act on upper-half space <span class="SimpleMath">frak h^3</span> in the same way as the Picard group. Upper-half space can be tessellated by a 'fundamental domain' for this action. Moreover, as with the Picard group, this tessellation contains a <span class="SimpleMath">2</span>-dimensional cellular subspace <span class="SimpleMath">cal T⊂ frak h^3</span> where <span class="SimpleMath">cal T</span> is a contractible CW-complex on which <span class="SimpleMath">G</span> acts cellularly. It should be mentioned that the fundamental domain and the contractible <span class="SimpleMath">2</span>-complex <span class="SimpleMath">cal T</span> are not uniquely determined by <span class="SimpleMath">G</span>. Various algorithms exist for computing <span class="SimpleMath">cal T</span> and its cell stabilizers. One algorithm due to Swan <a href="chapBib.html#biBswan">[Swa71a]</a> has been implemented by Alexander Rahm <a href="chapBib.html#biBrahmthesis">[Rah10]</a> and the output for various values of <span class="SimpleMath">d</span> are stored in HAP. Another approach is to use Voronoi's theory of perfect forms. This approach has been implemented by Sebastian Schoennenbeck [BCNS15] and, again, its output for various values of d are stored in HAP. The following commands combine data from Schoennenbeck's algorithm with free resolutions for cell stabiliers to compute</p>
<p>Note that the action of <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2(cal O_-d)</span> on <span class="SimpleMath">P_{cal O_-d}(k)</span> induces an action of <span class="SimpleMath">PSL_2(cal O_-d)</span> provided <span class="SimpleMath">k</span> is even.</p>
<div class="example"><pre>
<span class="GAPprompt">gap></span> <span class="GAPinput">R:=ResolutionPSL2QuadraticIntegers(-6,4);</span>
Resolution of length 4 in characteristic 0 for PSL(2,O-6) .
No contracting homotopy available.
<p>where the bar denotes a twist in the action obtained from complex conjugation. For an action of the projective linear group we must insist that <span class="SimpleMath">k+ℓ</span> is even. The following commands compute</p>
<p>a computation which was first made, along with many other cohomology computationsfor Bianchi groups, by Mehmet Haluk Sengun <a href="chapBib.html#biBsengun">[Sen11]</a>.</p>
<p>The function <code class="code">ResolutionPSL2QuadraticIntegers(-d,n)</code> relies on a limited data base produced by the algorithms implemented by Schoennenbeck and Rahm. The function also covers some cases covered by entering a sring "-d+I" as first variable. These cases correspond to projective special groups of module automorphisms of lattices of rank 2 over the integers of the imaginary quadratic number field <span class="SimpleMath">Q(sqrt-d)</span> with non-trivial Steinitz-class. In the case of a larger class group there are cases labelled "-d+I2",...,"-d+Ik" and the Ij together with O-d form a system of representatives of elements of the class group modulo squares and Galois action. For instance, the following commands compute</p>
<div class="example"><pre>
<span class="GAPprompt">gap></span> <span class="GAPinput">R:=ResolutionPSL2QuadraticIntegers("-21+I2",3);</span>
Resolution of length 3 in characteristic 0 for PSL(2,O-21+I2)) .
No contracting homotopy available.
<h4>13.11 <span class="Heading">(Co)homology of Bianchi groups and <span class="SimpleMath">SL_2(cal O_-d)</span></span></h4>
<p>The (co)homology of Bianchi groups has been studied in papers such as <a href="chapBib.html#biBSchwermer">[SV83]</a> <a href="chapBib.html#biBVogtmann">[Vog85]</a> <a href="chapBib.html#biBBerkove00">[Ber00]</a> <a href="chapBib.html#biBBerkove06">[Ber06]</a> <a href="chapBib.html#biBRahm11">[RF13]</a> <a href="chapBib.html#biBRahm13">[Rah13b]</a> <a href="chapBib.html#biBRahm13a">[Rah13a]</a> <a href="chapBib.html#biBRahm20">[BLR20]</a>. Calculations in these papers can often be verified by computer. For instance, the calculation</p>
<p>obtained in <a href="chapBib.html#biBRahm11">[RF13]</a> can be verified as follows, once we note that Bianchi groups have virtual cohomological dimension 2 and, if all stabilizer groups are periodic with period dividing m, then the homology has period dividing m in degree <span class="SimpleMath">≥ 3</span>.</p>
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