Borcherds' proof of the Conway-Norton conjecture

zbMATH Open1221.11107arXiv0903.4456MaRDI QIDQ3062099FDOQ3062099

Authors: Elizabeth Jurisich 

Publication date: 3 January 2011

Abstract: We give a summary of R. Borcherds' solution (with some modifications) to the following part of the Conway-Norton conjectures: Given the Monster simple group and Frenkel-Lepowsky-Meurman's moonshine module for the group, prove the equality between the graded characters of the elements of the Monster group acting on the module (i.e., the McKay-Thompson series) and the modular functions provided by Conway and Norton. The equality is established using the homology of a certain subalgebra of the monster Lie algebra, and the Euler-Poincare identity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.4456

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zbMATH Keywords

moonshinemonster Lie algebraConway-Norton conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relationship to Lie algebras and finite simple groups (11F22) Homological methods in Lie (super)algebras (17B55) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08)

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