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Modular curves \(X_{1}(N)\) parametrize elliptic curves with a point of order N. They can be identified with connected components of projectivized strata \(\mathbb {P}\mathcal {H}(a,-a)\) of meromorphic differentials. As strata of meromorphic differentials, they have a canonical walls-and-chambers structure defined by the topological changes in the flat structure defined by the meromorphic differentials. We provide formulas for the number of chambers and an effective means for drawing the incidence graph of the chamber structure of any modular curve \(X_{1}(N)\). This defines a family of graphs with specific combinatorial properties. This approach provides a geometrico-combinatorial computation of the genus and the number of punctures of modular curves \(X_{1}(N)\). Although the dimension of a stratum of meromorphic differentials depends only on the genus and the numbers of the singularities, the topological complexity of the stratum crucially depends on the order of the singularities.
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I thank Quentin Gendron, Carlos Matheus and Anton Zorich for many interesting discussions.
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Tahar, G. Chamber Structure of Modular Curves \(X_{1}(N)\). Arnold Math J. 4, 459–481 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40598-019-00099-7
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