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Aug 5, 2018 at 19:04 comment added Will Chen @DavidCorwin Not quite, you just think of $F_2$ as the fundamental group of a punctured elliptic curve. The relation between $\mathbb{P}^1 - \{0,1,\infty\}$ and a punctured elliptic curve is somewhat subtle, and is essentially what is exploited in Asada's proof of the congruence subgroup property for $Aut(F_2)$. One relation between the two (which is not really exploited by Asada) is that the cusps of noncongruence modular curves correspond to certain types of dessins d'enfant.
Aug 5, 2018 at 14:44 comment added David Corwin Regarding the last paragraph, is that basically how your thesis works? Do you then think of $F_2$ as the fundamental group of $\mathbb{P}^1 \setminus \{0,1,\infty\}$?
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