<p>This work is motivated by and develops connections between several branches of mathematics and physics--the theories of Lie algebras, finite groups and modular functions in mathematics, and string theory in physics. The first part of the book presents a new mathematical theory of vertex operator algebras, the algebraic counterpart of two-dimensional holomorphic conformal quantum field theory. The remaining part constructs the Monster finite simple group as the automorphism group of a very special vertex operator algebra, called the "moonshine module" because of its relevance to "monstrous moonshine."</p>

Vertex Operator Algebras and the Monster (Volume 134) (Pure and Applied Mathematics, Volume 134)

Science & Math

Lepowsky, James

Frenkel, Igor

Meurman, Arne

Mathematics

Academic Press

Vertex Operator Algebras and the Monster

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