Papers and Talks by Gerald Höhn

Academic CV (last updated: September 2017)

Citations of my papers as found by Google Scholar

Komplexe elliptische Geschlechter und S^1-äquivariante Kobordismustheorie
Diplom thesis (Advisor: Hirzebruch/Zagier), Bonn 1991 (arxiv). A english translation is in preparation, here the introduction ([ps.gz], [pdf]).

Selbstduale Vertexoperatorsuperalgebren und das Babymonster
Ph.D. thesis (Advisor: Manin/Hirzebruch), Bonn 1995 (arxiv). Appeared in: Bonner Mathematische Schriften 286 (1996), 1-85 ([dvi], [ps.gz], [pdf]).

Papers

Un résultat de Schinzel
(with N.-P. Skoruppa) Journal de Théorie des Nombres de Bordeaux 5 (1993), 185 ([dvi], [ps.gz], [pdf]).

Self-dual Vertex Operator Superalgebras with Shadows of large minimal weight
Internat. Math. Res. Notices, No. 13, 1997, 613-621 (arxiv).

Framed Vertex Operator Algebras, Codes and the Moonshine Module
(with Chonying Dong and Robert Griess) Comm. Math. Phys. 193 (1998), 407-448 (arxiv).

Self-dual Codes over the Kleinian Four group
Mathematische Annalen 327 (2003), 227-255 (arxiv).

Virasoro Frames and their Stabilizers for the E_8 lattice type Vertex Operator Algebra
(with R. L. Griess, Jr.) Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelle) 561 (2003), 1-37 (arxiv).

A natural construction of Borcherds' Fake Baby Monster Lie algebra
(with N. R. Scheithauer) American Journal of Mathematics 125 (2003), 655-667 (arxiv).

Genera of Vertex Operator Algebras and 3-dimensional Quantum Field Theories
Vertex Operator Algebras in Mathematics and Physics, Fields Institute Communications, Amer. Math. Soc., RI. series. (arxiv).

The Symmetries of the shorter Moonshine Module
to appear in: Abhandlungen aus dem Mathematischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg (arxiv, revised version 2010)

Generalized Moonshine for the Baby Monster
Used for Habilitation. Version from May 2003 (ps).

Conformal Designs based on Vertex Operator Algebras
Advances in Mathematics 217 (2008), 2301-2335 (arxiv).

Vertex Operator Superalgebras of Large Minimal Weight
submitted (arxiv).

On a theorem of Garza regarding algebraic numbers with real conjugates
International Journal of Number Theory 7 (2011) 943-945 (arxiv).

McKay's E7 observation on the Babymonster
(with C.-H. Lam and H. Yamauchi) Internat. Math. Res. Notices (2012) No. 1, 166-212 (pdf and arxiv).

McKay's E6 observation on the largest Fischer group
(with C.-H. Lam and H. Yamauchi) Comm. Math. Phys. 310 (2012) 329-365 (pdf and arxiv).

A new class of codes over Z_2 x Z_2
submitted (arxiv).

A new generalized Kac-Moody algebra of rank 14
(with N. Scheithauer) Journal of Algebra 404 (2014), 222-239. (arxiv).

The McKay-Thompson series of Mathieu Moonshine modulo two
(with T. Creutzig and T. Miezaki) Ramanujan J. 34 (2014), 319-328 (arxiv).

Mathieu Moonshine and the Geometry of K3 Surfaces
(with T. Creutzig) Journal in Number Theory and Physics 8 (2014), 295-328 (arxiv).

Finite groups of symplectic automorphisms of hyperkähler manifolds of type K3^[2]
(with G. Mason) Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica (New Series) 14 (2019), 189-264 (arxiv).

The 290 fixed-point sublattice of the Leech lattice
(with G. Mason) Journal of Algebra 448 (2016), 618-637 (arxiv).

On the genus of the Moonshine Module
preprint (arxiv).

Talks

Vertex Algebra constructions of Generalized Kac-Moody Algebras - An overview
Workshop on Lie algebras, vertex algebras and automorphic forms, Edinburgh, September 2009 ([pdf])

Sporadische Symmetrien und unverstandene Zusammenhänge (in German)
Graduation ceremony of the Mathematics Department in Hamburg, summer semester 2009 ([pdf])

Back to Homepage