Teichmüller curves are algebraic curves in moduli space which are images of Teichmüller disks, i.e. of isometrically and holomorphically embedded Poincaré disks in Teichmüller space. A particularly handy class of Teichmüller curves comes from so-called origamis (or square-tiled surfaces). One starts with finitely many copies of the unit square in the Euclidean plane and glues them along their boundary according to a few combinatorial rules, such that one obtains a surface which is endowed with a holomorphic differential or equivalently with a translation structure. Teichmüller curves are up to birationality determined by an associated discrete subgroup of SL(2,R) called the Veech group. For origamis this is a subgroup of SL(2,Z) of finite index. We study for origamis in strata of low genus how far they are away from being congruence groups.
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