Moonshine Beyond the Monster - The Bridge Connecting Algebra, Modular Forms and Physics

Informationen zum Autor Terry Gannon is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Alberta! Edmonton. He is currently also Research Fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation! EPSRC. Klappentext A monograph on Moonshine, a mathematical physics topic, for graduate students and researchers. Zusammenfassung This book! originally published in 2006! describes the general theory of Moonshine and its underlying concepts! emphasising the fundamental ideas and examples behind some of the most fascinating topics in mathematics and physics. For graduates and researchers working in areas such as algebra! number theory! geometry! analysis! quantum field theory and conformal field theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction: glimpses of the theory beneath Monstrous moonshine; 1. Classical algebra; 2. Modular stuff; 3. Gold and brass: affine algebras and generalisations; 4. Conformal field theory: The physics of Moonshine; 5. Vertex operator algebras; 6. Modular group representations throughout the realm; 7. Monstrous Moonshine; Epilogue; Notation; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Terry Gannon, Terry (University of Alberta) Gannon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.09.2006
• EAN: 9780521835312
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83531-2
• No. of pages: 492
• Series: Cambridge Monographs on Mathem; Cambridge Monographs on Mathem
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries