Realization conjecture for all Conway and umbral twining functions

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Let NN range over the 24 Niemeier lattices and let Φ(N)\Phi(N) be the associated set of Conway or umbral twining functions. Realization conjecture. For every element ϕ∈Φ(N)\phi\in\Phi(N), there exists a K3K3 nonlinear sigma model T\mathcal{T} with a symmetry gg such that

ϕ=Zg(T.)\phi={\cal Z}_g(\mathcal{T}.)

Thus every function produced by Conway or umbral moonshine should arise as a physical twining genus of a K3K3 nonlinear sigma model. The source presents this as a converse to the completeness conjecture; it remains unproved.

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Miranda C. N. Cheng, Sarah M. Harrison, Roberto Volpato and Max Zimet, “K3 String Theory, Lattices and Moonshine”, arXiv:1612.04404 (2017).

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