## Another look at the frame shapes of finite groups.(English)Zbl 0653.10024

The author discusses some transformation formulas, under the action of congruence groups $$\Gamma_ 0(N)$$, of certain functions which are products of Dedekind $$\eta$$-functions of the type $$\prod_{t}\eta (tz)^{s_ t}$$, where the product is taken over a finite set of positive integers and each $$s_ t$$ is an integer. The so-called cyclotomic case has $$t\mid n$$ and $$s_ t=\mu (n/t)$$ for some integer $$n$$. The author proves that the general case can be reduced to the cyclotomic case and gives necessary and sufficient conditions under which these general products are invariant under the group. The action of Atkin–Lehner involutions is also discussed.
(The connection with frame shapes is simply: if $$G$$ is the Conway group $$.0$$ acting on the Leech lattice, then the characteristic polynomial of the action of an element of $$G$$ is a product of cyclotomic polynomials. This determines parameters $$t$$ and $$s_ t$$ as above and so defines a function of the above type.)
Reviewer: J. L. Hafner

### MSC:

 11F20 Dedekind eta function, Dedekind sums 11F22 Relationship to Lie algebras and finite simple groups 20D08 Simple groups: sporadic groups