The McKay–Thompson moonshine conjecture

Let gg be an element of the Monster group, and let jg(q)j_g(q) be its McKay–Thompson series. For a prime level NN, let Γ0(N)\Gamma_0(N) be the congruence subgroup of the modular group and let Γ0(N)+\Gamma_0(N)^+ denote its normaliser in SL(2;Z)SL(2;\mathbb{Z}). Moonshine conjecture. The McKay–Thompson series jg(q)j_g(q) is the unique modular invariant of a group lying between Γ0(N)\Gamma_0(N) and its normaliser Γ0(N)+\Gamma_0(N)^+ in the modular group SL(2;Z)SL(2;\mathbb{Z}). This conjecture is part of monstrous moonshine, which relates the representation theory of the Monster group to modular functions; the supplied passage does not state whether this formulation has been proved.

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Yang-Hui He, “John Keith Stuart McKay: 1939 - 2022”, arXiv:2305.00850 (2023).

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