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Why do symmetries of K3 surfaces lie in the Mathieu group $M_{24}$?
I'm having trouble following some steps of this argument from the appendix of Eguchi, Ooguri and Tachikawa's paper Notes on the K3 surface and the Mathieu group M24:
Now let us recall that the ...
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A lattice with Monster group symmetries
The book Mathematical Evolutions contains the following excerpt:
A last, famous, example is the following. It is known that in the space
of one hundred and ninety six thousand eight hundred and ...