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This is the first book to contain a rigorous construction and uniqueness proof for the largest and most famous sporadic simple group, the Monster. The author provides a systematic exposition of the theory of the Monster group, which remains largely unpublished despite great interest from both mathematicians and physicists due to its intrinsic connection with various areas in mathematics, including reflection groups, modular forms and conformal field theory. Through construction via the Monster amalgam - one of the most promising in the modern theory of finite groups - the author observes some important properties of the action of the Monster on its minimal module, which are axiomatized under the name of Majorana involutions. Development of the theory of the groups generated by Majorana involutions leads the author to the conjecture that Monster is the largest group generated by the Majorana involutions.Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-139780521889940
eBay Product ID (ePID)90726711
Product Key Features
Number of Pages266 Pages
Publication NameThe Monster Group and Majorana Involutions
LanguageEnglish
SubjectMathematics, Physics
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
AuthorA. A. Ivanov
SeriesCambridge Tracts in Mathematics
Dimensions
Item Height233 mm
Item Weight540 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorA. A. Ivanov