Traces of singular moduli and moonshine for the Thompson group

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2016.V10.N1.A2MaRDI QIDQ305095zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jeffrey Harvey, Brandon C. Rayhaun

Publication date 26 August 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.08179

zbMATH Keywords

modular formmoonshineThompson group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relationship to Lie algebras and finite simple groups (11F22) Representations of sporadic groups (20C34) Theta series; Weil representation; theta correspondences (11F27)

Abstract: We describe a relationship between the representation theory of the Thompson sporadic group and a weakly holomorphic modular form of weight one-half that appears in work of Borcherds and Zagier on Borcherds products and traces of singular moduli. We conjecture the existence of an infinite dimensional graded module for the Thompson group and provide evidence for our conjecture by constructing McKay--Thompson series for each conjugacy class of the Thompson group that coincide with weight one-half modular forms of higher level. We also observe a discriminant property in this moonshine for the Thompson group that is closely related to the discriminant property conjectured to exist in Umbral Moonshine.

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