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Miranda Cheng (Paris 7)
Wednesday 13 November 2013, 14:15-15:15
Exploring Moonshine in String Theory
- đ¤ Speaker: Miranda Cheng (Paris 7)
- đ Date & Time: Wednesday 13 November 2013, 14:15 - 15:15
- đ Venue: MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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Abstract
The term “moonshine” was introduced in the 70’s to describe a mysterious relation between automorphic functions and representations of finite groups, two distinct and fundamental concepts in mathematics. Recently, a novel type of moonshine phenomenon, named “umbral moonshine”, was discovered. Evidence suggests that umbral moonshine enjoys a close connection to string theory compactified on K3 surfaces. In this talk I will report on the progress of this moonshine exploration from a string theoretic perspective.
Series This talk is part of the Theoretical Physics Colloquium series.
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