Moonshine Bibliography


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Akbas, M.; Singerman, D.
The signature of the normalizer of $\Gamma\sb 0(N)$.
Groups, combinatorics & geometry (Durham, 1990), 77-86, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., 165, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1992.



Alexander D, Cummins C J, McKay J and Simons C
Completely replicable functions
L.M.S. Lecture Notes Series, Eds. M.W. Liebeck and J. Saxl vol 165 1992



Bántay, P.
Higher genus Moonshine.
Moonshine, the Monster, and related topics (South Hadley, MA, 1994), 1-8, Contemp. Math., 193, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996.



Bántay, P.
Orbifolds, Hopf algebras, and the Moonshine.
Lett. Math. Phys. 22 , no. 3, 187-194 1991.



Borcherds R E
Generalized Kac-Moody algebras
J. Algebra, 115, 501-512 1988



Borcherds R E
Monstrous moonshine and monstrous Lie superalgebras
Invent. Math., Vol 109, 405-444 1992



Borcherds, Richard E.
Introduction to the Monster Lie algebra.
Groups, combinatorics & geometry (Durham, 1990), 99-107, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., 165, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1992.



R.E. Borcherds and A. J. E. Ryba
Modular Moonshine II
Duke Math. J. 83, 435-459 1996



I. Chen and N. Yui
Singular values of Thompson series
in Groups, Difference sets and the Monster, eds. K.T. Arusu et al de Gruyter 1995.



H. Cohn and J. McKay
Spontaneous generation of modular invariants
Math. of Comp. 65, 1295-1309 1996.



Conway, John H.; Hsu, Tim
Quilts and $T$-systems.
J. Algebra 174, no. 3, 856-908 1995.



Conway J H and Norton S P
Monstrous Moonshine
Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 11 308-339 1979



Cummins, C. J.
Some comments on replicable functions.
Modern trends in Lie algebra representation theory (Kingston, ON, 1993), 48-55, Queen's Papers in Pure and Appl. Math., 94, Queen's Univ., Kingston, ON, 1994.



Cummins C J and Gannon T
Modular equations and the genus zero property of Moonshine functions
Invent. Math. 129, 413-443 1997.



Cummins C J and Norton S P
Rational Hauptmoduls are replicable
Can. J. Math. 47, 1201-1218 1995.



Dixon L, Ginsparg P and Harvey J
Beauty and the Beast: Superconformal Symmetry in a Monster Module
Commun. Math. Phys. 119, 221 1988



Dolan, L.
Superstring twisted conformal field theory.
Moonshine, the Monster, and related topics (South Hadley, MA, 1994), 9-24, Contemp. Math., 193, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996.



Dolan, L.; Goddard, P.; Montague, P.
Conformal field theory of twisted vertex operators.
Nuclear Phys. B 338, no. 3, 529-601 1990.



Dolan, L.; Goddard, P.; Montague, P.
Conformal field theory, triality and the Monster group.
Phys. Lett. B 236, no. 2, 165-172 1990.



Dong, Chongying; Mason, Geoffrey; Zhu, Yongchang
Discrete series of the Virasoro algebra and the moonshine module.
Algebraic groups and their generalizations: quantum and infinite-dimensional methods (University Park, PA, 1991), 295-316, Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., 56, Part 2, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1994.



Dong, Chongying; Lepowsky, James
Generalized vertex algebras and relative vertex operators.
Progress in Mathematics, 112. BirkhŠuser Boston, Inc., Boston, MA, 1993. ISBN: 0-8176-3721-4



Dong, Chongying
Representations of the moonshine module vertex operator algebra.
Mathematical aspects of conformal and topological field theories and quantum groups (South Hadley, MA, 1992), 27-36, Contemp. Math., 175, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1994.



Dong, Chongying; Mason, Geoffrey
An orbifold theory of genus zero associated to the sporadic group $M\sb {24}$.
Comm. Math. Phys. 164, no. 1, 87-104 1994.



Dong, Chongying; Mason, Geoffrey
Vertex operator algebras and Moonshine: a survey.
Progress in algebraic combinatorics (Fukuoka, 1993), 101-136, Adv. Stud. Pure Math., 24, Math. Soc. Japan, Tokyo, 1996.



Dong, Chongying; Li, Haisheng; Mason, Geoffrey
Some twisted sectors for the Moonshine module.
Moonshine, the Monster, and related topics (South Hadley, MA, 1994), 25-43, Contemp. Math., 193, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996.



Dong, Chongying
Introduction to vertex operator algebras. I.
Moonshine and vertex operator algebra (Japanese) (Kyoto, 1994). S\=urikaisekikenky\=usho K\=oky\=uroku No. 904 1995, 1-25.



Feingold, Alex J.; Ries, John F. X.; Weiner, Michael D.
Spinor construction of the $c=\frac12$ minimal model.
Moonshine, the Monster, and related topics (South Hadley, MA, 1994), 45-92, Contemp. Math., 193, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996.



Ferenbaugh C R
On the Modular Functions involved in ``Monstrous Moonshine''
Ph.D. Thesis, Princeton University 1992



Ferenbaugh, Charles R.
The genus-zero problem for $n\vert h$-type groups.
Duke Math. J. 72, no. 1, 31-63 1993.



Ferenbaugh, Charles R.
Replication formulae for $n\vert h$-type Hauptmoduls.
J. Algebra 179, no. 3, 808-837 1996.



Ford, David; McKay, John; Norton, Simon
More on replicable functions.
Comm. Algebra 22, no. 13, 5175-5193 1994.



Frenkel, Igor; Lepowsky, James; Meurman, Arne
Vertex operator algebras and the Monster.
Pure and Applied Mathematics, 134. Academic Press, Inc., Boston, MA, 1988. ISBN: 0-12-267065-5



Harada, K; Lang, M L
On some sublattices of the Leech lattice.
Hokkaido Math. J. 19, 435-446 1990.



Harada, Koichiro; Lang, Mong Lung
The McKay-Thompson series associated with the irreducible characters of the Monster.
Moonshine, the Monster, and related topics (South Hadley, MA, 1994), 93-111, Contemp. Math., 193, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996.



Hirzebruch, Friedrich; Berger, Thomas; Jung,
Rainer Manifolds and modular forms.
With appendices by Nils-Peter Skoruppa and by Paul Baum.
Aspects of Mathematics, E20. Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig, 1992. ISBN: 3-528-06414-5



Huang, Yi-Zhi
Introduction to vertex operator algebras. III.
Moonshine and vertex operator algebra (Japanese) (Kyoto, 1994). S\=urikaisekikenky\=usho K\=oky\=uroku No. 904, 51-77 1995.



Huang, Yi-Zhi; Lepowsky, James
Tensor products of modules for a vertex operator algebra and vertex tensor categories.
Lie theory and geometry, 349-383, Progr. Math., 123, BirkhŠuser Boston, Boston, MA, 1994.



Hsu, Tim
Some quilts for the Mathieu groups.
Moonshine, the Monster, and related topics (South Hadley, MA, 1994), 113-122, Contemp. Math., 193, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996.



Huang, Yi-Zhi
A nonmeromorphic extension of the Moonshine module vertex operator algebra.
Moonshine, the Monster, and related topics (South Hadley, MA, 1994), 123-148, Contemp. Math., 193, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996.



Ito, Hideji
Computation of the modular equation.
Proc. Japan Acad. Ser. A Math. Sci. 71, no.3, 48-50 1995.



Ivanov, A. A.
On the Buekenhout-Fischer geometry of the Monster.
Moonshine, the Monster, and related topics (South Hadley, MA, 1994), 149-158, Contemp. Math., 193, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996.



Kac, Victor G.; Kang, Seok-Jin
Trace formula for graded Lie algebras and Monstrous Moonshine.
Representations of groups (Banff, AB, 1994), 141-154, CMS Conf. Proc., 16, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1995.



Kang, Seok-Jin
Quantum deformations of generalized Kac-Moody algebras and their modules.
J. Algebra 175, no. 3, 1041-1066 1995.



Kimura, Takashi
Operads of moduli spaces and algebraic structures in conformal field theory.
Moonshine, the Monster, and related topics (South Hadley, MA, 1994), 159-189, Contemp. Math., 193, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996.



Koike M
On replication formula and Hecke operators
Nagoya University, unpublished preprint



Koike, Masao
Modular forms and the automorphism group of Leech lattice.
Nagoya Math. J. 112, 63-79 1988.



Koike, Masao
Moonshine, simple groups and unusual relations to automorphic functions.
(Japanese) Sžgaku 40 1988, no. 3, 237-246.



Kozlov D. N.
On completely replicable functions and extremal poset theory
M.Sc. thesis, Department of Mathematics, University of Lund, Sweden, 1994.



Kultze, Rolf
Elliptic genera and the moonshine module.
Math. Z. 223 1996, no. 3, 463-471.



Landweber, Peter S.; Ravenel, Douglas C.; Stong, Robert E.
Periodic cohomology theories defined by elliptic curves.
The \v Cech centennial (Boston, MA, 1993), 317-337, Contemp. Math., 181, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1995.



Lang, Mong-Lung
On a question raised by Conway-Norton.
J. Math. Soc. Japan 41, no. 2, 263-284 1989.



Lepowsky, J.; Wilson, R. L.
On Hopf algebras and the elimination theorem for free Lie algebras.
Moonshine, the Monster, and related topics (South Hadley, MA, 1994), 191-202, Contemp. Math., 193, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996.



Li, Hai Sheng
Introduction to vertex operator algebras. II.
Moonshine and vertex operator algebra (Japanese) (Kyoto, 1994). S\=urikaisekikenky\=usho K\=oky\=uroku No. 904 1995, 26-50.



Lian, Bong H.; Yau, Shing-Tung
Mirror symmetry, rational curves on algebraic manifolds and hypergeometric series.
XIth International Congress of Mathematical Physics (Paris, 1994), 163-184, Internat. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995.



Lian, Bong H.; Zuckerman, Gregg J.
Moonshine cohomology.
Moonshine and vertex operator algebra (Japanese) (Kyoto, 1994). S\=urikaisekikenky\=usho K\=oky\=uroku No. 904 1995, 87-115.



Li, Hai-Sheng
Local systems of twisted vertex operators, vertex operator superalgebras and twisted modules.
Moonshine, the Monster, and related topics (South Hadley, MA, 1994), 203-236, Contemp. Math., 193, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996.



Liu, Kefeng
Modular forms and topology.
Moonshine, the Monster, and related topics (South Hadley, MA, 1994), 237-262, Contemp. Math., 193, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996.



K. Mahler
On a class of non-linear functional equations connected with modular functions
J. Austral. Math. Soc. 22A, 65-118 1976.



Y. Martin
On modular invariance of completely replicable functions
in Moonshine, the Monster, and related Topics, eds. C Dong and G. Mason, Contemporary Mathematics 193, 263-286, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996.



McKay, John; Strauss, Hubertus
The $q$-series of monstrous moonshine and the decomposition of the head characters.
Comm. Algebra 18, no. 1, 253-278 1990.



G. Mason (with an appendix by S.P. Norton),
Finite groups and modular functions,
Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 47, Part 1,
The Arcata Conference on Representations of Finite Groups (Arcata, Calif., 1986), 181-210, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1987.



Mason, Geoffrey
Elliptic systems and the eta-function.
Notas Soc. Mat. Chile 8, no. 1, 37-53 1989.



Mason, Geoffrey
$G$-elliptic systems and the genus zero problem for $M\sb {24}$.
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.) 25, no. 1, 45-53 1991.



Mason, Geoffrey
Remarks on moonshine and orbifolds.
Groups, combinatorics & geometry (Durham, 1990), 108-120, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., 165, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1992.



Mason, Geoffrey
Vertex operator representations of $\hat A\sb N$ organized by an affine space.
J.Algebra 157, no. 1, 128-160 1993.



Misra, Kailash C.
On embedding of integrable highest weight modules of affine Lie algebras.
Moonshine, the Monster, and related topics (South Hadley, MA, 1994), 287-295, Contemp. Math., 193, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996.



Miyamoto, Masahiko
$21$ involutions acting on the Moonshine module.
J. Algebra 175, no. 3, 941-965 1995.



Miyamoto, Masahiko
Griess algebras and conformal vectors in vertex operator algebras.
J. Algebra 179, no. 2, 523-548 1996.



Montague, P. S.
Orbifold constructions and the classification of self-dual $c=24$ conformal field theories.
Nuclear Phys. B 428, no. 1-2, 233-258 1994.



Norton S P
More on Moonshine
Computational Group Theory
edited by M.D. Atkinson, Academic Press, pp185-193 1984



Norton, S. P.
Non-Monstrous Moonshine.
Groups, difference sets, and the Monster (Columbus, OH,1993), 433-441, Ohio State Univ. Math. Res. Inst. Publ., 4, de Gruyter, Berlin, 1996.



Norton, S.
The Monster algebra: some new formulae.
Moonshine, the Monster, and related topics (South Hadley, MA, 1994), 297-306, Contemp. Math., 193, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996.



Reynolds, William F.
Thompson's characterization of characters and sets of primes.
J. Algebra 156, no. 1, 237-243 1993.



Ryba, A. J. E.
Modular Moonshine?
Moonshine, the Monster, and related topics (South Hadley, MA, 1994), 307-336, Contemp. Math., 193, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996.



Ryba, A. J. E.
A natural invariant algebra for the Harada-Norton group.
Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 119, no. 4, 597-614 1996.



Smith, Gene Ward
Replicant powers for higher genera.
Moonshine, the Monster, and related topics (South Hadley, MA, 1994), 337-352, Contemp. Math., 193, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996.



Tanabe, Michimasa
Remarks on the elliptic cohomology of finite groups.
J. Math. Kyoto Univ. 34, no. 4, 709-717 1994.



Thomas, C. B.
Elliptic cohomology of the classifying space of the Mathieu group $M\sb {24}$.
Topology and representation theory (Evanston, IL, 1992), 307-318, Contemp. Math., 158, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1994.



Thompson J G
Some numerology between the Fischer-Griess Monster and the elliptic modular function
Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 11, 352-353 1979



J.G. Thompson
A finiteness theorem for subgroups of $PSL(2,\R)$ which are commensurable with $PSL(2,\Z)$
Proc. Sym. Pure. Math., 37, Santa Cruz Conference on finite groups, 533-555, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence RI, 1980.



Tits, Jacques
Le module du "moonshine" [d'après I. Frenkel, J. Lepowsky et A. Meurman]. (French)
[The ``moonshine'' module [after I. Frenkel, J. Lepowsky and A. Meurman]] Séminaire Bourbaki, Vol. 1986/87.
Astérisque No. 152-153 1987, 5, 285-303 1988.




Tuite, Michael P.
Monstrous Moonshine from orbifolds.
Comm. Math. Phys. 146, no. 2, 277-309 1992.



Tuite, Michael P.
Monstrous Moonshine and the uniqueness of the Moonshine module.
Low-dimensional topology and quantum field theory (Cambridge, 1992), 289-296, NATO Adv. Sci. Inst. Ser. B Phys., 315, Plenum, New York, 1993.



Tuite, Michael P.
On the relationship between Monstrous Moonshine and the uniqueness of the Moonshine module.
Comm. Math. Phys. 166, no. 3, 495-532 1995.



Tuite, Michael P.
Monstrous Moonshine and orbifolds.
Groups, difference sets, and the Monster (Columbus, OH, 1993), 443-461, Ohio State Univ. Math. Res. Inst. Publ., 4, de Gruyter, Berlin, 1996.



Tuite, Michael P.
Generalised Moonshine and abelian orbifold constructions.
Moonshine, the Monster, and related topics (South Hadley, MA, 1994), 353-368, Contemp. Math., 193, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1996.



Witten, Edward
Geometry and quantum field theory.
American Mathematical Society centennial publications, Vol. II (Providence, RI, 1988), 479-491, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1992.



Xu, Xiaoping
Analogue of vertex operator triality for ternary codes.
J. Pure Appl. Algebra 99, no. 1, 53-111 1995.



Xu, Xiaoping
Central extensions of self-dual type-$A$ complex lattices.
Comm. Algebra 22, no. 4, 1281-1303 1994.



Yang, Jae-Hyun
Kac-Moody algebras, the Monstrous Moonshine, Jacobi forms and infinite products.
Number theory, geometry and related topics (Iksan City, 1995), 13-82, Pyungsan Inst. Math. Sci., Seoul, 1996.



Groups, difference sets, and the Monster.
Proceedings of a Special Research Quarter held at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1993. Edited by K. T. Arasu, J. F. Dillon, K. Harada, S. Sehgal and R. Solomon. Ohio State University Mathematical Research Institute Publications, 4. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin, 1996. ISBN: 3-11-014791-2



Moonshine, the Monster, and related topics.
Proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference held at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, June 18-23, 1994. Edited by Chongying Dong and Geoffrey Mason. Contemporary Mathematics, 193. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1996. ISBN: 0-8218-0385-9



M\=unshain to ch\=oten say\=oso dais\=u. [Moonshine and vertex operator algebra]
Proceedings of a symposium held at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, September 5-9, 1994. S\=urikaisekikenky\=usho K\=oky\=uroku No. 904 1995. Kyoto University, Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto, 1995.