Cows, Moonshine, Pheasants … versus Soybeans

Nutritional value of raw soybeans, extruded soybeans, roasted soybeans and tallow as fat sources in early lactating dairy cows

Thirty multiparous Holstein cows (29.8 ± 4.01days in milk; 671.6 ± 31.47 kg of body weight) were used in a completely randomized design to compare nutritional value of four fat sources including tallow, raw soybeans, extruded soybeans and roasted soybeans for 8 weeks. Experimental diets were a control containing 27.4 % alfalfa silage, 22.5% corn silage, and 50.1% concentrate, and four diets wit...

Rational Generalised Moonshine from Abelian Orbifoldings of the Moonshine Module

We consider orbifoldings of the Moonshine Module with respect to the abelian group generated by a pair of commuting Monster group elements with one of prime order p = 2, 3, 5, 7 and the other of order pk for k = 1 or k prime. We show that constraints arising from meromorphic orbifold conformal field theory allow us to demonstrate that each orbifold partition function with rational coefficients ...

Parasites of Nebraska pheasants.

Problems in moonshine

The talk at the I.C.C.M. was an introduction to moonshine. As there are already several survey articles on what is known about moonshine ([B94], [B99], [D-M94], [DM96], [F-H98], [J]), this paper differs from the talk and will concentrate mainly on what we do not know about it. Moonshine is not a well defined term, but everyone in the area recognizes it when they see it. Roughly speaking, it mea...

Generalized Moonshine Ii: Borcherds Products

The goal of this paper is to construct infinite dimensional Lie algebras using infinite product identities, and to use these Lie algebras to reduce the generalized moonshine conjecture to a pair of hypotheses about group actions on vertex algebras and Lie algebras. The Lie algebras that we construct conjecturally appear in an orbifold conformal field theory with symmetries given by the monster ...