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The group of symmetries of the shorter Moonshine module

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It is shown that the automorphism group of the shorter Moonshine module VB ♮ constructed in the author’s Ph.D. thesis (Selbstduale Vertexoperatorsuperalgebren und das Babymonster, Bonner Math. Schr. 286: 1996) is the direct product of the finite simple group known as the Baby Monster and the cyclic group of order 2.

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Höhn, G. The group of symmetries of the shorter Moonshine module. Abh. Math. Semin. Univ. Hambg. 80, 275–283 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12188-010-0040-1

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