This paper defines a remarkable Lie algebra of infinite dimension and rank, and conjectures that it may be related to the Fischer-Griess Monster group. The idea was discussed in [3] that there might be an infinite-dimensional Lie algebra (or superalgebra) L that in some sense "explains" the Fischer
The monster Lie algebra
β Scribed by Richard E Borcherds
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 975 KB
- Volume
- 83
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0001-8708
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