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Mathieu Moonshine and the Geometry of K3 Surfaces

Quantum Algebra 2014-07-15 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Number Theory

Abstract

We compare the moonshine observation of Eguchi, Ooguri and Tachikawa relating the Mathieu group M_24 and the complex elliptic genus of a K3 surface with the symmetries of geometric structures on K3 surfaces. Two main results are that the complex elliptic genus of a K3 surface is a virtual module for the Mathieu group M_24 and also for a certain vertex operator superalgebra V^G where G is the holonomy group.

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@article{arxiv.1309.2671,
  title  = {Mathieu Moonshine and the Geometry of K3 Surfaces},
  author = {Thomas Creutzig and Gerald Hoehn},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.2671},
  year   = {2014}
}

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29 pages