Moonshine and SW(3/2, 2)
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Superstring compactification on a manifold of Spin(7) holonomy gives rise to a 2d worldsheet conformal field theory with an extended supersymmetry algebra. Such manifolds have a c=12 realization of the symmetry group SW(3/2, 2). In this thesis, I explore the characters of this algebra, and decompose the elliptic genus of a general Spin(7) compactification in terms of these characters, giving results that are suggestive of a large symmetry group. I make this suggestion manifest by constructing a SCFT that permits an M24, Co2 and Co3, and which has an action by the SW(3/2, 2) algebra.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Whalen, Daniel |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Physics. |
| Primary advisor | Kachru, Shamit, 1970- |
| Thesis advisor | Kachru, Shamit, 1970- |
| Thesis advisor | Kallosh, Renata |
| Thesis advisor | Silverstein, Eva, 1970- |
| Advisor | Kallosh, Renata |
| Advisor | Silverstein, Eva, 1970- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Daniel Whalen. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Physics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Daniel Whalen
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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