Topological modularity of Monstrous Moonshine

Authors :: Lin, Ying-Hsuan
Publication Year :: 2022
Publisher :: arXiv, 2022.
Abstract: We explore connections among Monstrous Moonshine, orbifolds, the Kitaev chain, and topological modular forms. Symmetric orbifolds of the Monster CFT, together with further orbifolds by subgroups of Monster, are studied and found to satisfy the divisibility property, which was recently used to rule out extremal holomorphic conformal field theories. For orbifolds by cyclic subgroups of Monster, we arrive at divisibility properties involving the full McKay-Thompson series. Orbifolds by non-abelian subgroups of Monster are further considered by utilizing the data of Generalized Moonshine.<br />Comment: 23 pages; v2: improved discussion of series divisibility, added proofs and references