Author : Sarah Harrison
Release : 2014
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Book Synopsis String Theory, Geometry and (mock) Modular Forms by : Sarah Harrison
Download or read book String Theory, Geometry and (mock) Modular Forms written by Sarah Harrison. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monstrous moonshine (Conway and Norton, c. 1980) is a relation between the "monster", the largest of the sporadic finite simple groups, and the j-function, the unique holomorphic weight zero modular function under SL(2, Z) with a simple pole at the infinite cusp. Recently, string theory has been the impetus for the discovery of a host of similar such relations, connecting many smaller finite groups to mock modular forms, the recalcitrant cousins of the j-function. Here I discuss some of these mysterious new connections, and progress we have made in understanding them by studying string theory on K3 manifolds. This thesis is based on the papers [157], [153], and [127] written with Miranda Cheng, Xi Dong, John Duncan, Shamit Kachru, Natalie Paquette, and Timm Wrase. It should not be cited without also referencing those papers.