Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 0 Introduction: glimpses of the theory beneath Monstrous Moonshine
- 1 Classical algebra
- 2 Modular stuff
- 3 Gold and brass: affine algebras and generalisations
- 4 Conformal field theory: the physics of Moonshine
- 5 Vertex operator algebras
- 6 Modular group representations throughout the realm
- 7 Monstrous Moonshine
- Epilogue, or the squirrel who got away?
- Notation
- References
- Index
1 - Classical algebra
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2023
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 0 Introduction: glimpses of the theory beneath Monstrous Moonshine
- 1 Classical algebra
- 2 Modular stuff
- 3 Gold and brass: affine algebras and generalisations
- 4 Conformal field theory: the physics of Moonshine
- 5 Vertex operator algebras
- 6 Modular group representations throughout the realm
- 7 Monstrous Moonshine
- Epilogue, or the squirrel who got away?
- Notation
- References
- Index
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- Chapter
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- Moonshine beyond the MonsterThe Bridge Connecting Algebra, Modular Forms and Physics, pp. 14 - 103Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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