Moonshine

DOI10.1186/S40687-015-0029-6zbMATH Open1380.11030arXiv1411.6571OpenAlexW4211110154WikidataQ59412276 ScholiaQ59412276MaRDI QIDQ289945FDOQ289945

M. J. Griffin, John F. R. Duncan, Ken Ono

Publication date: 31 May 2016

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

Abstract: Monstrous moonshine relates distinguished modular functions to the representation theory of the monster. The celebrated observations that 196884=1+196883 and 21493760=1+196883+21296876, etc., illustrate the case of the modular function j-744, whose coefficients turn out to be sums of the dimensions of the 194 irreducible representations of the monster. Such formulas are dictated by the structure of the graded monstrous moonshine modules. Recent works in moonshine suggest deep relations between number theory and physics. Number theoretic Kloosterman sums have reappeared in quantum gravity, and mock modular forms have emerged as candidates for the computation of black hole degeneracies. This paper is a survey of past and present research on moonshine. We also compute the quantum dimensions of the monster orbifold, and obtain exact formulas for the multiplicities of the irreducible components of the moonshine modules. These formulas imply that such multiplicities are asymptotically proportional to dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.6571

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zbMATH Keywords

Kloosterman sumsmodular functionsmonster orbifoldmonstrous moonshine

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of group representations to physics and other areas of science (20C35) Holomorphic modular forms of integral weight (11F11) Relationship to Lie algebras and finite simple groups (11F22) Forms of half-integer weight; nonholomorphic modular forms (11F37) Representations of sporadic groups (20C34) Jacobi forms (11F50)

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