A Monstrous Proposal

2006/06/01 by Daniel Allcock, Allcock, Daniel
Mathematics · #20D08 #Algebraic Geometry (math.AG) #Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory #FOS: Mathematics #Geometric and Algebraic Topology #Group Theory (math.GR) #Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0606043

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Abstract

We explain a conjecture relating the monster simple group to an algebraic variety that was discovered in a non-monstrous context.

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