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A proof of the Thompson Moonshine Conjecture

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Speaker: 
Michael Mertens
Affiliation: 
Emory U, Atlanta
Date: 
Wed, 03/08/2016 - 14:15 - 15:15
Location: 
MPIM Lecture Hall
Parent event: 
Number theory lunch seminar

In this talk we prove the existence of an infinite dimensional graded super-module for the finite sporadic Thompson group $Th$ whose McKay-Thompson series are
weakly holomorphic modular forms of weight $\frac 12$ satisfying properties conjectured by Harvey and Rayhaun.

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