Vertex Operator Algebras and the Monster (Volume 134) (Pure and Applied Mathematics, Volume 134)
Brand: Academic Press
Color: Other
Categories: Books, Science & Math, Mathematics



Dimensions: 6 x 1.25 x 9 inches
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0122670655
Publisher: Academic Press
Print length: 508 pages
Publication date: April 11, 1989
ISBN-13: 978-0122670657
Edition: 1st
subtitle: 1st Edition
author: Visit Amazon's Igor Frenkel Page search results Igor Frenkel James Lepowsky Arne Meurman
review: Editorial Reviews Review This book is a detailed research monograph which contains the complete proofs of the authors' previously announced results. It is mostly self-contained and the exposition, given the technicalities involved, could not have been any better. It will be an asset to research mathematicians as well as physicists, and certainly deserves a place in every mathematics and physics library. --MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS The present book shows how this group arises as the symmetry group of a certain vertex-operator algebra....'One fact, however, is undeniable. As the automorphism group of a distinguished conformal field theory, the Monster is fundamentally related to one of the most spectacular chapters of modern theoretical physics--string theroy.' --N.J.A. SLoane, AT&T Laboratories quoted in AMERICAN SCIENTIST