Sketch of a program for automorphic functions from universal Teichmüller theory to capture monstrous moonshine

DOI10.1007/S00220-021-04268-8MaRDI QIDQ2113469zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert Penner, Igor B. Frenkel

Publication date 14 March 2022

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.14220

zbMATH Keywords

monstrous moonshineautomorphic triadTeichmüller space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relationship to Lie algebras and finite simple groups (11F22) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Teichmüller theory for Riemann surfaces (30F60) Moduli of Riemann surfaces, Teichmüller theory (complex-analytic aspects in several variables) (32G15)

Abstract: We review and reformulate old and prove new results about the triad ${mPPSL}_2(mathbbZ)subseteq{mPPSL}_2(mathbbR)circlearrowrightpps{l}_2(mathbbR)$, which provides a universal generalization of the classical automorphic triad ${mPSL}_2(mathbbZ)subseteq{mPSL}_2(mathbbR)circlearrowrightps{l}_2(mathbbR)$. The leading P or $p$ in the universal setting stands for $piecewise$, and the group ${mPPSL}_2(mathbbZ)$ plays at once the role of universal modular group, universal mapping class group, Thompson group $T$ and Ptolemy group. We produce a new basis of the Lie algebra $pps{l}_2(mathbbR)$, compute its structure constants, define a central extension which is compared with the Weil-Petersson 2-form, and discuss its representation theory. We construct and study new framed holographic coordinates on the universal Teichm"uller space and its symmetry group ${mPPSL}_2(mathbbR)$, and construct an invariant 1-form as its Maurer-Cartan form analogous to the invariant Eisenstein 1-form $E_2(z)dz$, which gives rise to the spin 1 representation of $ps{l}_2(mathbbR)$ extended by the trivial representation. This suggests the full program for developing the theory of universal automorphic functions conjectured to yield the bosonic CFT${}_2$. Relaxing the automorphic condition to the commutant leads to our ultimate conjecture on realizing the Monster CFT${}_2$ via the automorphic representation for the universal triad. This conjecture is also bolstered by the links of both the universal Teichm"uller and the Monster CFT${}_2$ theories to the three-dimensional quantum gravity.

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