Duality Defect of the Monster CFT

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/ABD69EMaRDI QIDQ6328318arXivFDO

Authors Ying-Hsuan Lin, Shu-Heng Shao

Publication date 31 October 2019

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/ABD69E

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40)

arXiv classification

cond-mat.str-el hep-th math.RT

Abstract: We show that the fermionization of the Monster CFT with respect to

m a t h b b Z_{2 A}

is the tensor product of a free fermion and the Baby Monster CFT. The chiral fermion parity of the free fermion implies that the Monster CFT is self-dual under the

m a t h b b Z_{2 A}

orbifold, i.e. it enjoys the Kramers-Wannier duality. The Kramers-Wannier duality defect extends the Monster group to a larger category of topological defect lines that contains an Ising subcategory. We introduce the defect McKay-Thompson series defined as the Monster partition function twisted by the duality defect, and find that the coefficients can be decomposed into the dimensions of the (projective) irreducible representations of the Baby Monster group. We further prove that the defect McKay-Thompson series is invariant under the genus-zero congruence subgroup

16 D^{0}

of

P S L (2, m a t h b b Z)

.

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