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We study D-branes in the bosonic closed string theory whose automorphism group is the Bimonster group (the wreath product of the Monster simple group with ℤ2). We give a complete classification of D-branes preserving the chiral subalgebra of Monster invariants and show that they transform in a representation of the Bimonster. Our results apply more generally to self-dual conformal field theories which admit the action of a compact Lie group on both the left- and right-moving sectors.
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Received: 20 February 2002 / Accepted: 17 August 2002 Published online: 19 December 2002
Communicated by R.H. Dijkgraaf
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Craps, B., Gaberdiel, M. & Harvey, J. Monstrous Branes. Commun. Math. Phys. 234, 229–251 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-002-0763-7
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00220-002-0763-7