Harada–Norton group


In the area of modern algebra known as group theory, the Harada–Norton group HN is a sporadic simple group of order

History and properties

HN is one of the 26 sporadic groups and was found by and ).
Its Schur multiplier is trivial and its outer automorphism group has order 2.
HN has an involution whose centralizer is of the form 2.HS.2, where HS is the Higman-Sims group.
The prime 5 plays a special role in the group. For example, it centralizes an element of order 5 in the Monster group, and as a result acts naturally on a vertex operator algebra over the field with 5 elements. This implies that it acts on a 133 dimensional algebra over F5 with a commutative but nonassociative product, analogous to the Griess algebra.

Generalized Monstrous Moonshine

Conway and Norton suggested in their 1979 paper that monstrous moonshine is not limited to the monster, but that similar phenomena may be found for other groups. Larissa Queen and others subsequently found that one can construct the expansions of many Hauptmoduln from simple combinations of dimensions of sporadic groups.
For HN, the relevant McKay-Thompson series is where one can set the constant term a = -6,
and η is the Dedekind eta function.

Maximal subgroups

found the 14 conjugacy classes of maximal subgroups of HN as follows: