Moonshine for M₂₄ and Donaldson invariants of C P^2

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2012.V6.N4.A1MaRDI QIDQ2392990zbMATHFDO

Authors Andreas Malmendier, Ken Ono

Publication date 7 August 2013

Published in Communications in Number Theory and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.5139

zbMATH Keywords

mock modular formmoonshineDonaldson invariantsMathieu groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other functions defined by series and integrals (33E20) Topology of surfaces (Donaldson polynomials, Seiberg-Witten invariants) (14J80) Representations of sporadic groups (20C34) Applications of global analysis to structures on manifolds (57R57) Elliptic genera (58J26) Relations with algebraic geometry and topology (11F23)

Abstract: Eguchi, Ooguri, and Tachikawa recently conjectured a new moonshine phenomenon. They conjecture that the coefficients of a certain mock modular form H(tau), which arises from the K3 surface elliptic genus, are sums of dimensions of irreducible representations of the Mathieu group M24. We prove that H(tau) surprisingly also plays a significant role in the theory of Donaldson invariants. We prove that the Moore-Witten u-plane integrals for H(tau) are the SO(3)-Donaldson invariants of CP^2. This result then implies a moonshine phenomenon where these invariants conjecturally are expressions in the dimensions of the irreducible representations of M24. Indeed, we obtain an explicit expression for the Donaldson invariant generating function Z(p,S) in terms of the derivatives of H(tau).

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