Harvey–Rayhaun's Thompson Moonshine conjecture

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Let ThTh be the Thompson sporadic simple group. A graded ThTh-supermodule is a decomposition

W=⨁m=−3m≡0,1 (mod⁡4)∞Wm.W=\bigoplus_{\substack{m=-3 \\ m\equiv 0,1\ \left(\operatorname{mod} 4\right)}}^\infty W_m.

For m≥0m\geq 0, suppose that WmW_m has vanishing odd part when m≡0(mod4)m\equiv 0\pmod 4 and vanishing even part when m≡1(mod4)m\equiv 1\pmod 4. For g∈Thg\in Th, define its McKay–Thompson series by

T[g](τ):=∑m=−3m≡0,1 (mod⁡4)∞strace⁡Wm(g)qm.\mathcal{T}_{[g]}(\tau):=\sum_{\substack{m=-3 \\ m\equiv 0,1\ \left(\operatorname{mod} 4\right)}}^\infty \operatorname{strace}_{W_m}(g)q^m.

Harvey–Rayhaun's Thompson Moonshine conjecture. There exists such a graded ThTh-supermodule WW for which, for every g∈Thg\in Th, the series T[g](τ)\mathcal{T}_{[g]}(\tau) is a specifically given weakly holomorphic modular form of weight 12\tfrac12 in the Kohnen plus space. This conjecture concerns a half-integral-weight Moonshine phenomenon for the Thompson group; the paper's abstract proof establishes the asserted module and modular-form identities.

References

Primary source

Michael J. Griffin and Michael H. Mertens, “A proof of the Thompson Moonshine Conjecture”, arXiv:1607.03078 (2016).

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