Rademacher sums, moonshine and gravity

DOI10.4310/CNTP.2011.V5.N4.A4zbMATH Open1279.11045arXiv0907.4529MaRDI QIDQ454875FDOQ454875

Igor B. Frenkel, John F. R. Duncan

Publication date: 10 October 2012

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

Abstract: In 1939 Rademacher derived a conditionally convergent series expression for the elliptic modular invariant, and used this expression- the first Rademacher sum - to verify its modular invariance. By generalizing Rademacher's approach we construct bases for the spaces of automorphic integrals of arbitrary even integer weight, for all groups commensurable with the modular group. We use these Rademacher sums to illuminate various aspects of the structure of the spaces of automorphic integrals, including the actions of Hecke operators. We obtain a new characterization of the discrete groups of monstrous moonshine in terms of Rademacher sums, and we develop connections between Rademacher sums and a family of monstrous Lie algebras recently introduced by Carnahan. Our constructions suggest conjectures relating monstrous moonshine to a distinguished family of chiral three dimensional quantum gravities, and relating monstrous Lie algebras and their Verma modules to the second quantization of this family of chiral three dimensional quantum gravities.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.4529

zbMATH Keywords

monstrous moonshinebases for spaces of automorphic integrals of even integer weightFourier expansions of Rademacher sumsgroups commensurable with the modular groupmonstrous Lie algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relationship to Lie algebras and finite simple groups (11F22) Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Hecke-Petersson operators, differential operators (one variable) (11F25) Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08)

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