Monstrous moonshine and monstrous Lie superalgebras

Richard E. Borcherds

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Monstrous moonshine and monstrous Lie superalgebras

Richard E. Borcherds

Inventiones mathematicae Vol. 109 No. 1 pp. 405-444 · Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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Richard E. Borcherds (1992). Monstrous moonshine and monstrous Lie superalgebras. Inventiones mathematicae, 109(1), 405-444. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01232032

Monstrous moonshine and monstrous Lie superalgebras

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