Ramanujan's influence on string theory, black holes and moonshine

DOI10.1098/rsta.2018.0440zbMath1462.81157arXiv1909.11477OpenAlexW3103606505WikidataQ91779391 ScholiaQ91779391MaRDI QIDQ4993488

Jeffrey A. Harvey

Publication date: 15 June 2021

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11477

zbMATH Keywords

relativityblack holesstring theorygroup theorymathematical physicsnumber theorymock modular formsmoonshine

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08) History of quantum theory (81-03) Black holes (83C57) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Relationship to Lie algebras and finite simple groups (11F22) Forms of half-integer weight; nonholomorphic modular forms (11F37) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) History of number theory (11-03) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

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