scholarly journals THE MOONSHINE MODULE FOR CONWAY’S GROUP

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN F. R. DUNCAN ◽  
SANDER MACK-CRANE
Keyword(s):  
Automorphism Group ◽  
Fixed Points ◽  
Vertex Operator ◽  
Operator Algebra ◽  
Fourier Expansion ◽  
Vertex Operator Algebra ◽  
Natural Analogue ◽  
Genus Zero ◽  
Leech Lattice ◽  
Special Case

We exhibit an action of Conway’s group – the automorphism group of the Leech lattice – on a distinguished super vertex operator algebra, and we prove that the associated graded trace functions are normalized principal moduli, all having vanishing constant terms in their Fourier expansion. Thus we construct the natural analogue of the Frenkel–Lepowsky–Meurman moonshine module for Conway’s group. The super vertex operator algebra we consider admits a natural characterization, in direct analogy with that conjectured to hold for the moonshine module vertex operator algebra. It also admits a unique canonically twisted module, and the action of the Conway group naturally extends. We prove a special case of generalized moonshine for the Conway group, by showing that the graded trace functions arising from its action on the canonically twisted module are constant in the case of Leech lattice automorphisms with fixed points, and are principal moduli for genus-zero groups otherwise.

scholarly journals VIRASORO CORRELATION FUNCTIONS FOR VERTEX OPERATOR ALGEBRAS

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 1250106 ◽  
Author(s):  
DONNY HURLEY ◽  
MICHAEL P. TUITE
Keyword(s):  
Graph Theory ◽  
Vertex Operator ◽  
Generating Functions ◽  
Operator Algebra ◽  
Correlation Functions ◽  
Vertex Operator Algebra ◽  
Operator Algebras ◽  
Vertex Operator Algebras ◽  
Genus Zero ◽  
Genus One

We consider all genus zero and genus one correlation functions for the Virasoro vacuum descendants of a vertex operator algebra. These are described in terms of explicit generating functions that can be combinatorially expressed in terms of graph theory related to derangements in the genus zero case and to partial permutations in the genus one case.

scholarly journals GENUS-ZERO MODULAR FUNCTORS AND INTERTWINING OPERATOR ALGEBRAS

1998 ◽  
Vol 09 (07) ◽  
pp. 845-863 ◽  
Author(s):  
YI-ZHI HUANG
Keyword(s):  
Vertex Operator ◽  
Operator Algebra ◽  
Vertex Operator Algebra ◽  
Operator Algebras ◽  
Central Charge ◽  
Vertex Operator Algebras ◽  
Main Step ◽  
Group Representations ◽  
Genus Zero ◽  
Intertwining Operator

In [7] and [9], the author introduced the notion of intertwining operator algebra, a nonmeromorphic generalization of the notion of vertex operator algebra involving monodromies. The problem of constructing intertwining operator algebras from representations of suitable vertex operator algebras was solved implicitly earlier in [5]. In the present paper, we generalize the geometric and operadic formulation of the notion of vertex operator algebra given in [3, 4, 11, 12, 8] to the notion of intertwining operator algebra. We show that the category of intertwining operator algebras of central charge [Formula: see text] is isomorphic to the category of algebras over rational genus-zero modular functors (certain analytic partial operads) of central charge c satisfying a certain generalized meromorphicity property. This result is one main step in the construction of genus-zero conformal field theories from representations of vertex operator algebras announced in [7]. One byproduct of the proof of the present isomorphism theorem is a geometric construction of (framed) braid group representations from intertwining operator algebras and, in particular, from representations of suitable vertex operator algebras.

scholarly journals The automorphism group of the -orbifold of the Barnes–Wall lattice vertex operator algebra of central charge 32

2014 ◽  
Vol 156 (2) ◽  
pp. 343-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
HIROKI SHIMAKURA
Keyword(s):  
Automorphism Group ◽  
Vertex Operator ◽  
Operator Algebra ◽  
Vertex Operator Algebra ◽  
Central Charge ◽  
Group Structure ◽  
Graph Structure ◽  
Full Automorphism Group ◽  
Lattice Vertex Operator Algebra

AbstractIn this paper, we prove that the full automorphism group of the ${\mathbb Z}_2$-orbifold of the Barnes–Wall lattice vertex operator algebra of central charge 32 has the shape 227.E6(2). In order to identify the group structure, we introduce a graph structure on the Griess algebra and show that it is a rank 3 graph associated to E6(2).

scholarly journals On orbifold constructions associated with the Leech lattice vertex operator algebra

2018 ◽  
Vol 168 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHING HUNG LAM ◽  
HIROKI SHIMAKURA
Keyword(s):  
Lie Algebra ◽  
Vertex Operator ◽  
Operator Algebra ◽  
Vertex Operator Algebra ◽  
Operator Algebras ◽  
Central Charge ◽  
Leech Lattice ◽  
Weight One ◽  
Strongly Regular ◽  
Lattice Vertex Operator Algebra

AbstractIn this paper, we study orbifold constructions associated with the Leech lattice vertex operator algebra. As an application, we prove that the structure of a strongly regular holomorphic vertex operator algebra of central charge 24 is uniquely determined by its weight one Lie algebra if the Lie algebra has the type A3,43A1,2, A4,52, D4,12A2,6, A6,7, A7,4A1,13, D5,8A1,2 or D6,5A1,12 by using the reverse orbifold construction. Our result also provides alternative constructions of these vertex operator algebras (except for the case A6,7) from the Leech lattice vertex operator algebra.

scholarly journals TWISTED VERTEX OPERATORS AND BERNOULLI POLYNOMIALS

2006 ◽  
Vol 08 (02) ◽  
pp. 247-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. DOYON ◽  
J. LEPOWSKY ◽  
A. MILAS
Keyword(s):  
Vertex Operator ◽  
Operator Algebra ◽  
Central Extension ◽  
Vertex Operator Algebra ◽  
Differential Operators ◽  
Operator Algebras ◽  
Bernoulli Polynomials ◽  
Vertex Operator Algebras ◽  
Vertex Operators ◽  
Special Case

Using general principles in the theory of vertex operator algebras and their twisted modules, we obtain a bosonic, twisted construction of a certain central extension of a Lie algebra of differential operators on the circle, for an arbitrary twisting automorphism. The construction involves the Bernoulli polynomials in a fundamental way. We develop new identities and principles in the theory of vertex operator algebras and their twisted modules, and explain the construction by applying general results, including an identity that we call modified weak associativity, to the Heisenberg vertex operator algebra. This paper gives proofs and further explanations of results announced earlier. It is a generalization to twisted vertex operators of work announced by the second author some time ago, and includes as a special case the proof of the main results of that work.

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