Class numbers, congruent numbers and umbral moonshine

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Publication date 12-2025
Journal Journal of Number Theory
Volume | Issue number 277
Pages (from-to) 201-235
Number of pages 35
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract

In earlier work we initiated a program to study relationships between finite groups and arithmetic geometric invariants of modular curves in a systematic way. In the present work we continue this program, with a focus on the two smallest sporadic simple Mathieu groups. To do this we first elucidate a connection between a special case of umbral moonshine and the imaginary quadratic class numbers. Then we use this connection to classify a distinguished set of modules for the smallest sporadic Mathieu group. Finally we establish a connection between our classification and the congruent number problem of antiquity.

Document type Article
Note Publisher Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s)
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnt.2025.02.007
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