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This volume contains the proceedings of a Joint Summer Research Conference held at Mount Holyoke College in June 1994. As perhaps the first conference proceedings devoted exclusively to the subject known as "Moonshine", this work contains something for many mathematicians and physicists.
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Eighteen papers on the Monster, now considered as the group of automorphisms of a certain vertex operator algebra the Moonshine Module with "Moonshine" construed as the representation theory of certain vertex operator algebras, namely so-called orbifolds. Among the features are results concerning the monster simple group and other simple groups, connections with elliptic cohomology, connections with 2-dimensional conformal field theory, the role of operads, and connections with modular functions. No index. Member prices are $42 for individuals and $56 for institutions. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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