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Seiberg-Witten Theory and Monstrous Moonshine

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-08-23 v1

Abstract

We study the relation between the instanton expansion of the Seiberg-Witten prepotential for D=4D=4, N=2{\cal N}=2 SU(2)SU(2) SUSY gauge theory for Nf=0N_f=0 and 11 and the monstrous moonshine. By utilizing a newly developed simple method to obtain the SW prepotential, it is shown that the coefficients of the expansion of q=e2πτq=e^{2\pi \tau} in terms of A2=Λ216a2A^2=\frac{\Lambda^2}{16 a^2} (Nf=0N_f=0) or Λ2162a2\frac{\Lambda^2}{16 \sqrt{2}a^2} (Nf=1N_f=1) are all integer coefficient polynomials of the moonshine coefficients of the modular jj-function. A relationship between the AGT c=25c = 25 Liouville CFT and the c=24c = 24 vertex operator algebra CFT of the moonshine module is also suggested.

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@article{arxiv.2208.10301,
  title  = {Seiberg-Witten Theory and Monstrous Moonshine},
  author = {Shun'ya Mizoguchi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.10301},
  year   = {2022}
}

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12 pages