Generalised umbral moonshine

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Publication date 2019
Journal Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (SIGMA)
Article number 014
Volume | Issue number 15
Number of pages 27
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics (KdVI)
Abstract
Umbral moonshine describes an unexpected relation between 23 finite groups arising from lattice symmetries and special mock modular forms. It includes the Mathieu moonshine as a special case and can itself be viewed as an example of the more general moonshine phenomenon which connects finite groups and distinguished modular objects. In this paper we introduce the notion of generalised umbral moonshine, which includes the generalised Mathieu moonshine [Gaberdiel M.R., Persson D., Ronellenfitsch H., Volpato R., Commun. Number Theory Phys. 7 (2013), 145-223] as a special case, and provide supporting data for it. A central role is played by the deformed Drinfel’d (or quantum) double of each umbral finite group G, specified by a cohomology class in H3(G,U(1)). We conjecture that in each of the 23 cases there exists a rule to assign an infinite-dimensional module for the deformed Drinfel’d double of the umbral finite group underlying the mock modular forms of umbral moonshine and generalised umbral moonshine. We also discuss the possible origin of the generalised umbral moonshine.
Document type Article
Note Contribution to the Special Issue on Moonshine and String Theory. - With ancillary files.
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2019.014
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85068710333
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