Publication:2392989

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2012.V6.N3.A4zbMATH Open1281.11040arXiv1110.3859OpenAlexW2963872651MaRDI QIDQ2392989FDOQ2392989

John F. R. Duncan, Miranda C. N. Cheng

Publication date: 7 August 2013

Published in: Communications in Number Theory and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently a conjecture has been proposed which attaches (mock) modular forms to the largest Mathieu group. This may be compared to monstrous moonshine, in which modular functions are attached to elements of the Monster group. One of the most remarkable aspects of monstrous moonshine is the following genus zero property: the modular functions turn out to be the generators for the function fields of their invariance groups. In particular, these invariance groups define genus zero quotients of the upper half plane. It is therefore natural to ask if there is an analogue of this property in the Mathieu case, and at first glance the answer appears to be negative since not all the discrete groups arising there have genus zero. On the other hand, in this article we prove that each (mock) modular form appearing in the Mathieu correspondence coincides with the Rademacher sum constructed from its polar part. This property, inspired by the AdS/CFT correspondence in physics, was shown previously to be equivalent to the genus zero property of monstrous moonshine. Hence we conclude that this "Rademacher summability" property serves as the natural analogue of the genus zero property in the Mathieu case. Our result constitutes further evidence that the Rademacher method provides a powerful framework for understanding the modularity of moonshine, and leads to interesting physical questions regarding the gravitational duals of the relevant conformal field theories.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.3859

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theorymock modular formRademacher sums

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relationship to Lie algebras and finite simple groups (11F22) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08)

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