• Corpus ID: 117030188

@article{He2015SporadicAE,
author={Yang-Hui He and John McKay},
journal={arXiv: Algebraic Geometry},
year={2015}
}
• Published 25 May 2015
• Mathematics
• arXiv: Algebraic Geometry
We study the web of correspondences linking the exceptional Lie algebras $E_{8,7,6}$ and the sporadic simple groups Monster, Baby and the largest Fischer group. This is done via the investigation of classical enumerative problems on del Pezzo surfaces in relation to the cusps of certain subgroups of $PSL(2,R)$ for the relevant McKay-Thompson series in Generalized Moonshine. We also study Conway's sporadic group, as well as its association with the Horrocks-Mumford bundle.
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