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The properties described here were found while investigating relations between the Lie group E 8, Thompson’s simple subgroup of the “Monster” which centralizes an element of order three therein, and the cube root of the modular function j.
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Ford, D., McKay, J. (1981). Representations and Coxeter Graphs. In: Davis, C., Grünbaum, B., Sherk, F.A. (eds) The Geometric Vein. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5648-9_36
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