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On the genera of X0(N)

János A. Csirik, Joseph L. Wetherell, Michael E. Zieve

math.NTarXiv:math/0006096

Abstract

Let g0(N) be the genus of the modular curve X0(N). We record several properties of the sequence g0(N). Even though the average size of g0(N) is 1.25N/pi2, a random positive integer has probability zero of being a value of g0(N). Also, if N is a random positive integer then g0(N) is odd with probability one. The smallest non-negative integer not occuring as g0(N) for any N is 150; the smallest such odd integer is 49267.

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