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Motivated by the appearance of penumbral moonshine, and by evidence that penumbral moonshine enjoys an extensive relationship to generalized monstrous moonshine via infinite products, we establish a general construction in this work which…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-18 John F. R. Duncan , Jeffrey A. Harvey , Brandon C. Rayhaun

The Monster Lie algebra $\frak m $, which admits an action of the Monster finite simple group $\mathbb{M}$, was introduced by Borcherds as part of his work on the Conway--Norton Monstrous Moonshine conjecture. Here we construct an…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Lisa Carbone , Elizabeth Jurisich , Scott H. Murray

We study aspects of the theory of generalized Kac-Moody Lie algebras (or Borcherds algebras) and their standard modules. It is shown how such an algebra with no mutually orthogonal imaginary simple roots, including Borcherds' Monster Lie…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Elizabeth Jurisich , James Lepowsky , R. L. Wilson

We construct super vertex operator algebras which lead to modules for moonshine relations connecting the four smaller sporadic simple Mathieu groups with distinguished mock modular forms. Starting with an orbifold of a free fermion theory,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-07 Miranda C. N. Cheng , Xi Dong , John F. R. Duncan , Sarah Harrison , Shamit Kachru , Timm Wrase

We give a summary of R. Borcherds' solution (with some modifications) to the following part of the Conway-Norton conjectures: Given the Monster simple group and Frenkel-Lepowsky-Meurman's moonshine module for the group, prove the equality…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2009-03-27 Elizabeth Jurisich

Umbral moonshine describes an unexpected relation between 23 finite groups arising from lattice symmetries and special mock modular forms. It includes the Mathieu moonshine as a special case and can itself be viewed as an example of the…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-05 Miranda C. N. Cheng , Paul de Lange , Daniel P. Z. Whalen

In these notes, based on lectures given in Istanbul, we give an introduction both to Monstrous Moonshine and to the classification of rational conformal field theories, using this as an excuse to explore several related structures and go on…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Terry Gannon

The anomaly for the Monster group $\mathbb{M}$ acting on its natural (aka moonshine) representation $V^\natural$ is a particular cohomology class $\omega^\natural \in \mathrm{H}^3(\mathbb{M},\mathrm{U}(1))$ that arises as a conformal field…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Theo Johnson-Freyd

The word moonshine refers to unexpected relations between the two distinct mathematical structures: finite group representations and modular objects. It is believed that the key to understanding moonshine is through physical theories with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-03 Vassilis Anagiannis , Miranda C. N. Cheng

Twenty-five years ago, Conway and Norton published their remarkable paper `Monstrous Moonshine', proposing a completely unexpected relationship between finite simple groups and modular functions. This paper reviews the progress made in…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 T. Gannon

In this paper we prove the existence of an infinite dimensional graded super-module for the finite sporadic Thompson group $Th$ whose McKay-Thompson series are weakly holomorphic modular forms of weight $\frac 12$ satisfying properties…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-02 Michael J. Griffin , Michael H. Mertens

In this article, we discuss the relation between Kac-Moody algebras, the monstrous moonshine, Jacobi forms and infinite products. We also review Borcherds' solution of the Moonshine Conjecture and his work of constructing automorphic forms…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-05-24 Jae-Hyun Yang

We construct a model of moonshine phenomenon based on the use of N=2 superconformal algebra. We consider an extremal Jacobi form of weight 0 and index 2, and expand it in terms of N=2 massless and massive representations. We find the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-24 Tohru Eguchi , Kazuhiro Hikami

In 1939 Rademacher derived a conditionally convergent series expression for the elliptic modular invariant, and used this expression- the first Rademacher sum - to verify its modular invariance. By generalizing Rademacher's approach we…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2012-04-13 John F. R. Duncan , Igor B. Frenkel

We construct a new cohomology functor from the a certain category of {\it quantum operator algebras} to the category of {\it Batalin-Vilkovisky algebras}. This {\it Moonshine cohomology} has, as a group of natural automorphisms, the…

q-alg · Mathematics 2016-09-08 Bong H. Lian , Gregg J. Zuckerman

In this short note, by modifying the results and proofs given in the author's recent work, we simply show that the difference of a Hauptmodul for any genus zero group $\Gamma_{0}(N)$ is a Borcherds lift. This work extends Scheithauer's…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-30 Dongxi Ye

We explain a conjecture relating the monster simple group to an algebraic variety that was discovered in a non-monstrous context.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2007-07-01 Daniel Allcock

We determine the order of the largest of the twenty-six sporadic simple groups known as the Monster, using a straightforward computational approach. The Monster is here defined as a subgroup of the symmetry group of the 196884-dimensional…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Gerald Höhn , Martin Seysen

We consider the application of Abelian orbifold constructions in Meromorphic Conformal Field Theory (MCFT) towards an understanding of various aspects of Monstrous Moonshine and Generalised Moonshine. We review some of the basic concepts in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Michael P. Tuite

In an article in the Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly in 2008, Duke and Jenkins investigated a certain natural basis of the space of weakly holomorphic modular forms for the full modular group $SL_2({\bf Z})$. We show here that their…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2014-05-14 Martina Lahr , Rainer Schulze-Pillot