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Moonshine Master Toys with String Theory

40 点作者 bdr将近 9 年前

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mathgenius将近 9 年前
From their paper:<p>&quot;&quot;&quot; According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a flame or light that is lambent is playing “lightly upon or gliding over a surface without burning it, like a ‘tongue of fire’; shining with a soft clear light and without fierce heat.” And since the light of umbral moonshine is apparently of this nature, we call the six values in Λ = {2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 13} lambent, and we refer to the index ℓ ∈ Λ as the lambency of the connections relating the umbral group G(ℓ) to the umbral forms Z(ℓ) and H(ℓ)g . &quot;&quot;&quot;<p>That is some very fine literary influences indeed.
hyh1048576将近 9 年前
The title makes me think it&#x27;s talking about Richard Borcherds, who solved the moonshine conjecture (and got the Fields Medal for that), and is now interested in TQFT (topological quantum field theory).<p>However it&#x27;s about Iris Cheng. I&#x27;m not saying she&#x27;s not good or anything like that, but how can the author call someone &quot;moonshine master&quot; while what happened is &quot;She happened to have read a book about the “monstrous moonshine,”&quot;?
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jplasmeier将近 9 年前
I took John Duncan&#x27;s course on intro abstract algebra when I was a sophomore at CWRU. I had signed up to take his class on modular forms the next semester but he had been hired away before I had the chance to take it. A big shame as he was one of the best professors I&#x27;ve had (nearly the entire course grade was based on homework- exactly as it should be IMO).