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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825808603321

Titolo

Moonshine, the monster, and related topics : Joint Research Conference on Moonshine, the Monster, and Related Topics, June 18-23, 1994, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts / / Chongying Dong, Geoffrey Mason, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1996]

©1996

ISBN

0-8218-7784-4

0-8218-5530-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (382 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 193

Disciplina

530.1/43

Soggetti

Quantum field theory

Vertex operator algebras

Mathematical physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Higher genus Moonshine""; ""Superstring twisted conformal field theory""; ""Some twisted sectors for the Moonshine Module""; ""Spinor construction of the c = 1/2 minimal model""; ""The McKay-Thompson series associated with the irreducible characters of the Monster""; ""Some quilts for the Mathieu groups""; ""A nonmeromorphic extension of the Moonshine Module vertex operator algebra""; ""On the Buekenhout-Fischer geometry of the Monster""; ""Operads of moduli spaces and algebraic structures in conformal field theory""

""On Hopf algebras and the elimination theorem for free Lie algebras""""Local systems of twisted vertex operators, vertex operator superalgebras and twisted modules""; ""Modular forms and topology""; ""On modular invariance of completely replicable functions""; ""On embedding of integrable highest weight modules of affine Lie algebras""; ""The monster algebra: Some new formulae""; ""Modular Moonshine?""; ""Replicant powers for higher genera""; ""Generalised Moonshine and abelian orbifold constructions""