Monster Group - Moonshine

Moonshine

The Monster group is one of two principal constituents in the Monstrous moonshine conjecture by Conway and Norton, which relates discrete and non-discrete mathematics and was finally proved by Richard Borcherds in 1992.

In this setting, the Monster group is visible as the automorphism group of the Monster module, a vertex operator algebra, an infinite dimensional algebra containing the Griess algebra, and acts on the Monster Lie algebra, a generalized Kac-Moody algebra.

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