Arne Meurman (born 6 April 1956) is a Swedish

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

working on

finite group In abstract algebra, a finite group is a group whose underlying set is finite. Finite groups often arise when considering symmetry of mathematical or physical objects, when those objects admit just a finite number of structure-preserving tra ...

s and

vertex operator algebra In mathematics, a vertex operator algebra (VOA) is an algebraic structure that plays an important role in two-dimensional conformal field theory and string theory. In addition to physical applications, vertex operator algebras have proven usef ...

s. Currently, he is a

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin ...

Lund University Lund University () is a Public university, public research university in Sweden and one of Northern Europe's oldest universities. The university is located in the city of Lund in the Swedish province of Scania. The university was officially foun ...

. He is best known for constructing the monster vertex algebra together with

Igor Frenkel Igor Borisovich Frenkel (; born April 22, 1952) is a Russian-American mathematician at Yale University working in representation theory and mathematical physics. Frenkel emigrated to the United States in 1979. He received his PhD from Yale Unive ...

and

James Lepowsky James Lepowsky (born July 5, 1944) is a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University, New Jersey. Previously he taught at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970 where his advisors were Bertram ...

. In his free time Meurman plays chess, and he has competed in the finals of the top division in the regional Allskånskan competition with Lunds ASK.

Publications

* Igor Frenkel, James Lepowsky, Arne Meurman, "Vertex operator algebras and the Monster". ''Pure and Applied Mathematics, 134.'' Academic Press, Inc., Boston, MA, 1988. liv+508 pp. * Arne Meurman, Mirko Primc, "Annihilating fields of standard modules of sl (2,C) and combinatorial identities", Memoirs AMS 1999

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