Questions tagged [monster]
Questions about the Monster group, the largest of the sporadic simple groups. This group acts as symmetries on a vertex operator algebra whose graded dimension is the elliptic $j$-function.
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Monstrous Langlands-McKay or what is bijection between conjugacy classes and irreducible representation for sporadic simple groups?
Context: The number of conjugacy classes equals to the number of irreducuble representations (over C) for any finite group. Moreover for the symmetric group and some other groups there is "good ...
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Kissing the Monster, or $196,560$ vs. $196,883$
The $D = 24$ kissing number is $196,560$, and the dimension of the smallest non-trivial complex representation of the Monster group is $196,883$. These two numbers are nearly but not quite equal, and ...
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Sporadic and Exceptional
I have been reading this recent paper of J.McKay and YH. He (they've written a number of papers recently, including a fun and joking one on 42 which overflow commented on) called "Sporadic and ...
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Monster group as automorphism group of a distributive lattice
It is known that every finite group is the automorphism group of a finite distributive lattice.
Question: What is the minimal order of a distributive lattice $L$ such that the automorphism group of $...
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The largest primes in the monster group construction
The last three prime numbers in the factorization of the order of the Fischer Griess friendly monster group are 47, 59, 71. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_group)
On the other hand, the monster ...
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"A locally dual polar space for the Monster"
I am currently looking at Ronan and Stroth's 1984 paper Minimal Parabolic Geometries for the Sporadic Groups. When considering the $3$-minimal parabolic system of $F_{1}$, they cite a preprint by ...
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Is there an extension of Ogg's results to surfaces of Genus 1
The first hints of moonshine appeared around 1974 when Andrew Ogg noticed that quotienting the hyperbolic plane by normalizers of the Hecke Congruence subgroups $\Gamma_{0}(p)$ has genus zero iff p is ...
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On level-$12$ of the McKay-Thompson series of the Monster and the Domb numbers
(This continues from level 10.) Given some moonshine functions $j_{N}$. There are nice descending and consistent relations for levels $6m$ with $m= 2,3,5,$
$$j_{12A} = \left(\sqrt{j_{12H}} + \frac{\...