Modular group

In mathematics, the modular group is the projective special linear group of 2×2 matrices with integer coefficients and determinant 1. The matrices A and A are identified. The modular group acts on the upper-half of the complex plane by fractional linear transformations, and the name "modular group" comes from the relation to moduli spaces and not from modular arithmetic.

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