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We use left multiplication by $\Gamma =S{L}_2(\mathbb{Z})$. For an integral matrix $A$ of determinant $n>0$, the Bezout identity gives a determinant-one row operation sending its first column to $(a,0{)}^t$, where $a$ is the positive gcd of that column. The resulting matrix is $\left(\begin{array}{cc}a& b\\ 0& d\end{array}\right)$ with $d=n/a>0$. Adding a multiple of the second row to the first makes $0\le b<d$.

These representatives are unique. Left multiplication by a unimodular matrix preserves the gcd of the first column, so two representatives in one orbit have the same $a$ and hence $d$. A matrix taking $(a,0{)}^t$ to itself has the form $\left(\begin{array}{cc}1& t\\ 0& 1\end{array}\right)$, so it changes $b$ by $td$; the prescribed range makes $b$ unique. Thus the determinant-n matrix representatives for Hecke operators are exactly ${\Pi }_n$. In the printed set, $0\le b<d$ already forces $d>0$, and $ad=n>0$ forces $a>0$.

For positive determinant extend the slash operator for modular forms byThe determinant factor makes this a right action: $(f{|}_{k}A){|}_{k}B=f{|}_k(AB)$. Right multiplication by $\delta \in \Gamma$ permutes the left cosets represented by ${\Pi }_n$, since it preserves the set of determinant-$n$ integral matrices. Hence $T_{n}f$ satisfies the modular transformation law. Its summands are holomorphic on the upper half-plane. For an upper-triangular representative,Substitute the Fourier expansion of a modular form. The sum over $b$ is zero unless the original index is divisible by $d$, in which case it equals $d$. Writing that index as $dr$ givesOnly nonnegative powers occur, so $T_{n}f$ is holomorphic at infinity, and all level-one cusps are equivalent to infinity. We have proved $T_{n}f\in M_k(\Gamma )$ and the Fourier coefficients of a composite-index Hecke operator formulaHere $\gcd (n,0)=n$, giving $a_0(T_{n}f)={\sum }_{a\mid n}{a}^{k-1}{a}_0(f)$. In particular cusp forms stay cusp forms. For nonzero level-one cusp forms the weight is an even integer at least twelve, so the powers $a^{k-1}$ are integers; the zero cusp space causes no exception. Thus every $T_n$ preserves integral Fourier coefficients, and closure under addition, multiplication and integer scalars provesThis is the integral Hecke algebra of level-one cusp forms.

We will also need commutativity. The coefficient formula directly givesFor the first identity, the divisors of $u$ and $v$ in the iterated coefficient sum combine uniquely into a divisor of $uv$. For the second, write a coefficient index as $p^t{r}_0$ with $p\nmid r_0$; the formula isApplying $T_p$ splits this into the two sums with shifts $t+1$ and $t-1$; their overlapping terms give exactly the stated recurrence. Since $T_1$ is the identity, induction expresses each $T_{p^r}$ as a polynomial in $T_p$, and coprime multiplicativity expresses every $T_n$ as a product of these polynomials. Distinct prime operators commute by the coprime identity. Hence all Hecke operators commute, and so do all elements of $\mathbb{T}$.

Let $\Lambda =S_k(\Gamma ,\mathbb{Z})$ and $m=\dim S_k(\Gamma )$. In the permitted basis $F_j={\Delta }^j{E}_4^{a_j}{E}_6^{b_j}$, the modular discriminant begins $q+O(q^2)$ and the normalized Eisenstein series begin $1+O(q)$, soThe matrix of $a_1,\dots ,a_m$ on this integral basis is unitriangular and has determinant one. Integer elimination therefore gives an integral basis $f_1,\dots ,f_m$ with $a_i(f_j)={\delta }_{ij}$ for $1\le i,j\le m$. Thus $a_1,\dots ,a_m$ are a $\mathbb{Z}$-basis of the dual module ${\mathrm{Hom}}_{\mathbb{Z}}(\Lambda ,\mathbb{Z})$.

The map $\alpha$ is well-defined by lattice preservation and is $\mathbb{Z}$-linear. Because $\alpha (T_j)=a_j$, it is surjective. For injectivity suppose $\alpha (T)=0$. For every $f\in \Lambda$ and every $n\ge 1$, commutativity givesThe constant term is also zero because $Tf$ is a cusp form. The identity theorem applied to its Fourier expansion of a modular form gives $Tf=0$. The integral basis spans the complex cusp space, so $T=0$ as an endomorphism. This proves the perfect integral Hecke pairing andIf $m=0$, both modules are zero and the asserted basis is empty.

The pairing $(T,f)\mapsto a_1(Tf)$ identifies the integral Hecke algebra of level-one cusp forms with the integral dual of the cusp-form lattice. An integral basis beginning $q,q^2,\dots ,q^m$ gives a unitriangular first-$m$ coefficient matrix, so $a_1,\dots ,a_m$ form a dual basis. Commutativity of the Hecke operators proves nondegeneracy on the algebra, and $T_1,\dots ,T_m$ then form its integral basis.