Beauty and the beast: Superconformal symmetry in a monster module

DOI10.1007/BF01217740zbMath0657.17011WikidataQ56429238 ScholiaQ56429238MaRDI QIDQ1110643

S. H. Smith

Publication date: 1988

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theory; super-Virasoro algebra; Leech lattice; vertex algebra; Fischer-Griess monster; bosonic twist fields; central charge 16; operator product algebra; representation of the monster finite simple group; supersymmetry generator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

17B10: Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights)

20D08: Simple groups: sporadic groups

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

17B65: Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras

17B70: Graded Lie (super)algebras

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