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A Characterization of the Moonshine Vertex Operator Algebra by Means of Virasoro Frames
1 Department of Mathematics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan 701
2 Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 153-8914, Japan
Correspondence: Correspondence to be sent to: Ching Hung Lam, Department of Mathematics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan 701. e-mail: chlam{at}mail.ncku.edu.tw
In this article, we show that a framed vertex operator algebra (VOA) V satisfying the conditions: (i) V is holomorphic (i.e., V is the only irreducible V-module); (ii) V is of rank 24; and (iii) V1 = 0; is isomorphic to the moonshine VOA V
constructed by Frenkel-Lepowsky-Meurman [12].