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Duality in N=4 Liouville Theory and Moonshine Phenomena

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-04-03 v5

Abstract

We consider the N=4{\cal N}=4 Liouville theory by varying the linear dilaton coupling constant Q\cal{Q}. It is known that at two different values of coupling constant Q=2N,(N1)2N{\cal Q}=\sqrt{{2\over N}},-(N-1)\sqrt{{2\over N}} system exhibits two different small N=4{\cal N}=4 superconformal symmetries with central charge c=6c=6 and c=6(N1)c=6(N-1), respectively. In the context of string theory these two theories are considered to describe Coulumb and Higgs branch of the theory and expected to be dual to each other. We study the Mathieu and umbral moonshine phenomena in these two theories and discuss their dual description. We mainly consider the case of ANA_N type modular invariants.

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@article{arxiv.1603.02903,
  title  = {Duality in N=4 Liouville Theory and Moonshine Phenomena},
  author = {Tohru Eguchi and Yuji Sugawara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.02903},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

1+39 pages, no figure; v2 typos corrected, especially, eq.(3.43) is corrected; v3 typos corrected, to be published in PTEP; v4 a reference added; v5 1+44 pages, Appendix D is added based on 'Addendum' to be published in PTEP