Mathieu moonshine and symmetry surfing

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA915FzbMATH Open1401.17021arXiv1609.09302OpenAlexW3106149983MaRDI QIDQ4599337FDOQ4599337

Hynek Paul, Christoph A. Keller, Matthias R. Gaberdiel

Publication date: 29 December 2017

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Mathieu Moonshine, the observation that the Fourier coefficients of the elliptic genus on K3 can be interpreted as dimensions of representations of the Mathieu group M24, has been proven abstractly, but a conceptual understanding in terms of a representation of the Mathieu group on the BPS states, is missing. Some time ago, Taormina and Wendland showed that such an action can be naturally defined on the lowest non-trivial BPS states, using the idea of `symmetry surfing', i.e., by combining the symmetries of different K3 sigma models. In this paper we find non-trivial evidence that this construction can be generalized to all BPS states.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.09302

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zbMATH Keywords

modular formsvertex operator algebrasMathieu Moonshine

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(K3) surfaces and Enriques surfaces (14J28) Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Elliptic genera (58J26)

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• GAP

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