Overview
This work is motivated by and develops connections between several branches of mathematics and physics--the theories of Lie algebras, finite groups and modular functions in mathematics, and string theory in physics. The first part of the book presents a new mathematical theory of vertex operator algebras, the algebraic counterpart of two-dimensional holomorphic conformal quantum field theory. The remaining part constructs the Monster finite simple group as the automorphism group of a very special vertex operator algebra, called the "moonshine module" because of its relevance to "monstrous moonshine."
- | Author: Igor Frenkel
- | Publisher: Academic Press
- | Publication Date: Mar 28, 1989
- | Number of Pages: 508 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0122670655
- | ISBN-13: 9780122670657
