Niemeier lattices in the free fermionic heterotic-string formulation (Q1798393)

Summary: The spinor-vector duality was discovered in free fermionic constructions of the heterotic string in four dimensions. It played a key role in the construction of heterotic-string models with an anomaly-free extra \(Z^{\prime}\) symmetry that may remain unbroken down to low energy scales. A generic signature of the low scale string derived \(Z^{\prime}\) model is via diphoton excess that may be within reach of the LHC. A fascinating possibility is that the spinor-vector duality symmetry is rooted in the structure of the heterotic-string compactifications to two dimensions. The two-dimensional heterotic-string theories are in turn related to the so-called moonshine symmetries that underlie the two-dimensional compactifications. In this paper, we embark on exploration of this connection by the free fermionic formulation to classify the symmetries of the two-dimensional heterotic-string theories. We use two complementary approaches in our classification. The first utilises a construction which is akin to the one used in the spinor-vector duality. Underlying this method is the triality property of \(\mathrm{SO}(8)\) representations. In the second approach, we use the free fermionic tools to classify the twenty-four-dimensional Niemeier lattices.