Mathieu moonshine and Borcherds products

arXiv2208.00574MaRDI QIDQ6406595FDOQ6406595

Brandon Williams, Haowu Wang

Publication date: 31 July 2022

Abstract: The twisted elliptic genera of a $K3$ surface associated with the conjugacy classes of the Mathieu group $M_{24}$ are known to be weak Jacobi forms of weight $0$. In 2010, Cheng constructed formal infinite products from the twisted elliptic genera and conjectured that they define Siegel modular forms of degree two. In this paper we prove that for each conjugacy class of level $N_g$ the associated product is a meromorphic Borcherds product on the lattice $U(N_g)oplusUoplus{A}_1$ in a strict sense. We also compute the divisors of these products and determine for which conjugacy classes the product can be realized as an additive (generalized Saito--Kurokawa) lift.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Siegel modular groups; Siegel and Hilbert-Siegel modular and automorphic forms (11F46) Jacobi forms (11F50)

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