Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Author(s): John Conway; John McKay; Abdellah Sebbar
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 132 (2004), 2233-2240.
MSC (2000): Primary 11F22, 11F03; Secondary 30F35, 20C34
Posted: March 25, 2004
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Abstract: We characterize the 171 discrete subgroups of $\mbox{PSL}_2(\mathbb{R} )$ occurring in Monstrous Moonshine in terms of their group-theoretic properties alone.

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John Conway
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Fine Hall, Princeton University, Washington Road, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-1000
Email: conway@math.princeton.edu

John McKay
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and CICMA, Concordia University, 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Montreal, Quebec H3G 1M8, Canada
Email: mckay@cs.concordia.ca

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