Generalized mathieu moonshine

Abstract

The Mathieu twisted twining genera, i.e., the analogues of Norton's generalized Moonshine functions, are constructed for the elliptic genus of K3. It is shown that they satisfy the expected consistency conditions, and that their behaviour under modular transformations is controlled by a 3-cocycle in H3(M24, U(1)), just as for the case of holomorphic orbifolds. This suggests that a holomorphic VOA may be underlying Mathieu Moonshine.