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71, the Monster, and c = 24 CFTs
The largest prime in the order of the Monster group is $71$. This number $71$ shows up at various places:
The minimal faithful representation has dimension $196883 = 47.59.71$
The Monster group can ...
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$H^4$ of the Monster
The Monster group $M$ acts on the moonshine vertex algebra $V^\natural$.
Because $V^\natural$ is a holomorphic vertex algebra (i.e., it has a unique irreducible module), there is a corresponding ...
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