Modular Invariants and Fischer-Griess Monster
Mathematical Physics
2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
math.MP
Abstract
We show interesting relations between extremal partition functions of a family of conformal field theories and dimensions of the irreducible representations of the Fischer-Griess Monster sporadic group. We argue that these relations can be interpreted as an extension of Monster moonshine.
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@article{arxiv.math-ph/0608001,
title = {Modular Invariants and Fischer-Griess Monster},
author = {Marcin Jankiewicz and Thomas W. Kephart},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math-ph/0608001},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, sprinconf.sty included. To appear in the proceedings of 26th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, June 26-30 2006, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York