Umbral moonshine and the Niemeier lattices

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DOI10.1186/2197-9847-1-3zbMATH Open1365.11044arXiv1307.5793OpenAlexW2140052210WikidataQ59401015 ScholiaQ59401015MaRDI QIDQ254872FDOQ254872


Authors: Miranda C. N. Cheng, John F. R. Duncan, Jeffrey Harvey Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 8 March 2016

Published in: Research in the Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we relate umbral moonshine to the Niemeier lattices: the 23 even unimodular positive-definite lattices of rank 24 with non-trivial root systems. To each Niemeier lattice we attach a finite group by considering a naturally defined quotient of the lattice automorphism group, and for each conjugacy class of each of these groups we identify a vector-valued mock modular form whose components coincide with mock theta functions of Ramanujan in many cases. This leads to the umbral moonshine conjecture, stating that an infinite-dimensional module is assigned to each of the Niemeier lattices in such a way that the associated graded trace functions are mock modular forms of a distinguished nature. These constructions and conjectures extend those of our earlier paper, and in particular include the Mathieu moonshine observed by Eguchi-Ooguri-Tachikawa as a special case. Our analysis also highlights a correspondence between genus zero groups and Niemeier lattices. As a part of this relation we recognise the Coxeter numbers of Niemeier root systems with a type A component as exactly those levels for which the corresponding classical modular curve has genus zero.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5793




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