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

DOI10.1007/S00220-021-04268-8zbMATH Open1497.11103arXiv2012.14220OpenAlexW4206542044MaRDI QIDQ2113469FDOQ2113469

Robert Penner, Igor B. Frenkel

Publication date: 14 March 2022

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

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.

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

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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)

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