Conway-Norton's Monstrous Moonshine conjecture

Let d4dcd4dc be the monster group, let

Vatural=iVaturaliV^ atural=\bigoplus_iV^ atural_i

be an infinite-dimensional graded representation with finite-dimensional graded parts, and for each conjugacy class [g][g] of d4dcd4dc let

T[g]=i1Tr(ρM(g)Vaturali)qiT_{[g]}=\sum_{i\geq-1}\operatorname{Tr}(\rho_\mathbb{M}(g)_{|V^ atural_i})q^i

be the associated McKay–Thompson series. Conway-Norton's Monstrous Moonshine conjecture. For every conjugacy class [g][g] of the monster, T[g]T_{[g]} is the qq-expansion of the normalised Hauptmodul of some subgroup d4a2[g]d4a2_{[g]} of PSL2(R)\operatorname{PSL}_2(\mathbb{R}) commensurable with PSL2(Z)\operatorname{PSL}_2(\mathbb{Z}). This extends Thompson's conjecture by requiring the corresponding trace series for all monster conjugacy classes to be normalized Hauptmoduln. The supplied text attributes the extension to Conway and Norton and gives no resolution status.

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Primary source

Valdo Tatitscheff, “A short introduction to Monstrous Moonshine”, arXiv:1902.03118 (2021).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2019). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1503.05675, arXiv:1411.5354.

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