On the relationship between Monstrous Moonshine and the uniqueness of the Moonshine Module

We consider the relationship between the conjectured uniqueness of the Moonshine Module, V*, and Monstrous Moonshine, the genus zero property of the modular invariance group for each Monster group Thompson series. We first discuss a family of possible Zn meromorphic orbifold constructions of V* based on automorphisms of the Leech lattice compactified bosonic string. We reproduce the Thompson series for all 51 non-Fricke classes of the Monster group M together with a new relationship between the centralisers of these classes and 51 corresponding Conway group centralisers (generalising a well-known relationship for 5 such classes). Assuming that V* is unique, we consider meromorphic orbifoldings of V* and show that Monstrous Moonshine holds if and only Zr if the only meromorphic orbifoldings of V* are V* itself or the Leech theory. This constraint on the meromorphic orbifoldings of V* therefore relates Monstrous Moonshine to the uniqueness of V* in a new way. (orig.)