Allcock's Bimonster covering conjecture

A 13-dimensional complex ball quotient is obtained from the Allcock lattice construction, with XX denoting the corresponding ball quotient and XsgX^{\rm sg} its singular or special-locus pair. Allcock's conjecture. The universal reflection Galois group of the pair (X,Xsg)(X,X^{\rm sg}) is isomorphic to the Bimonster

Mμ2=(M×M)μ2,{\mathbf M}\wr\mu_2=({\mathbf M}\times{\mathbf M})\rtimes\mu_2,

where M{\mathbf M} is the Monster, the largest sporadic simple group. This is the precise covering-group formulation of Allcock's proposal for the natural Bimonster covering of the 13-dimensional ball quotient; the supplied text does not state whether the conjecture has been resolved.

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Primary source

Eduard Looijenga, “Cubic threefolds moduli and the Monster group”, arXiv:2310.20124 (2024).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2006–2023). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1307.1339, arXiv:0811.0062, arXiv:math/0606043.

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