Timeline for Why does the monster group exist?
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| Aug 23, 2023 at 16:10 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | I quote: "our main group-theoretic tools for proving finiteness and simplicity are Sylow’s theorem and the Frattini argument, both from the late 19th century". | |
| Aug 23, 2023 at 15:38 | comment | added | Mikhail Katz | Just curious: do you know what the comment about 19th century group theory means exactly? | |
| Aug 23, 2023 at 13:16 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | my -- very limited -- understanding is that Carnahan answers the "why" question by "the monster group exists as a finite simple group because it is the automorphism group of the monster vertex algebra". | |
| Aug 23, 2023 at 12:38 | comment | added | Kimball | Or you could at least give a summary of what this partial answer is? | |
| Aug 22, 2023 at 15:44 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 22, 2023 at 15:34 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | Scott Carnahan is an MathOverflow moderator. Perhaps he could add more details to this answer. | |
| Aug 22, 2023 at 9:58 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 22, 2023 at 9:50 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 22, 2023 at 9:44 | history | answered | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 4.0 |