Vertex operator algebras, extended E₈ diagram, and McKay's observation on the Monster simple group

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-07-04002-0zbMATH Open1139.17011arXivmath/0403010OpenAlexW2093685375MaRDI QIDQ3443124FDOQ3443124

Authors: Ching Hung Lam, Hiromichi Yamada, Hiroshi Yamauchi 

Publication date: 31 May 2007

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study McKay's observation on the Monster simple group, which relates the 2A-involutions of the Monster simple group to the extended E_8 diagram, using the theory of vertex operator algebras (VOAs). We first consider the sublattices L of the E_8 lattice obtained by removing one node from the extended E_8 diagram at each time. We then construct a certain coset (or commutant) subalgebra U associated with L in the lattice VOA V_{sqrt{2}E_8}. There are two natural conformal vectors of central charge 1/2 in U such that their inner product is exactly the value predicted by Conway. The Griess algebra of U coincides with the algebra described in Conway's paper. There is a canonical automorphism of U of order |E_8/L|. Such an automorphism can be extended to the Leech lattice VOA V_Lambda and it is in fact a product of two Miyamoto involutions. In the sequel [LYY] to this article we shall develop the representation theory of $U$. It is expected that if U is actually contained in the Moonshine VOA V^ atural, the product of two Miyamoto involutions is in the desired conjugacy class of the Monster simple group.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0403010

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zbMATH Keywords

vertex operator algebrasMonster simple groupconformal vectorsMcKay's observationcoset subalgebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Virasoro and related algebras (17B68) Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69) Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08)

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