What is moonshine

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Authors Richard E. Borcherds

Publication date 11 November 2001

Published in Documenta Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9809110, http://www.emis.de/journals/DMJDMV/xvol-icm/Fields/Borcherds.MAN.html

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zbMATH Keywords

completely replicable functionsConway-Norton conjectureelliptic modular functiongeneralized Kac-Moody algebrasMacdonald identitiesmonstermonstrous moonshinemoonshine conjecturesvertex algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to number theory (11-02) Relationship to Lie algebras and finite simple groups (11F22) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to nonassociative rings and algebras (17-02) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Vertex operators; vertex operator algebras and related structures (17B69) Simple groups: sporadic groups (20D08)

Abstract: This is an informal write up of my talk in Berlin. It gives some background to Goddard's talk (math.QA/9808136) about the moonshine conjectures.

Review text

This is a nicely written version of the author's talk at the ICM in Berlin. He gives a vivid description of the origin of the term `monstrous moonshine' (relating to McKay's foolish ideas on rather weird relations between coefficients of the elliptic modular function and the representations of the monster and not to poetic terms). The early contributions of McKay, Conway, etc. are mentioned. The main emphasis is laid on \textit{P. Goddard}'s exposition of the proof of the Conway-Norton conjecture [see ibid. Vol. I, 99-108 (1998)], the relation with vertex algebras, generalized Kac-Moody algebras, Macdonald identities and completely replicable functions. Finally various extensions of the original moonshine conjectures are discussed.

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