Vertex Operator Algebras and the Monster

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Cover boards are in great condition with no visible flaws apart from some light handling wear. Spine is slightly bumped. Spine is lightly shaken, but binding is secure. Ink signature from previous owner on front end leaf page, otherwise all other pages are clean and unmarked. Seller Inventory # 1140786

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Synopsis: This work is motivated by and develops connections between several branches of mathematics and physics--the theories of Lie algebras, finite groups and modular functions in mathematics, and string theory in physics. The first part of the book presents a new mathematical theory of vertex operator algebras, the algebraic counterpart of two-dimensional holomorphic conformal quantum field theory. The remaining part constructs the Monster finite simple group as the automorphism group of a very special vertex operator algebra, called the "moonshine module" because of its relevance to "monstrous moonshine."

Review: This book is a detailed research monograph which contains the complete proofs of the authors' previously announced results. It is mostly self-contained and the exposition, given the technicalities involved, could not have been any better. It will be an asset to research mathematicians as well as physicists, and certainly deserves a place in every mathematics and physics library.
--MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS
The present book shows how this group arises as the symmetry group of a certain vertex-operator algebra....'One fact, however, is undeniable. As the automorphism group of a distinguished conformal field theory, the Monster is fundamentally related to one of the most spectacular chapters of modern theoretical physics--string theroy.'
--N.J.A. SLoane, AT&T Laboratories quoted in AMERICAN SCIENTIST

Bibliographic Details

Title: Vertex Operator Algebras and the Monster
Publisher: Academic Press, Inc
Publication Date: 1988
Binding: Hard cover
Condition: Very good
Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket