Inversion symmetric 3-monopoles and the Atiyah-Hitchin manifold

Conor Houghton, Paul Sutcliffe

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Abstract

We consider 3-monopoles symmetric under inversion symmetry. We show that the moduli space of these monopoles is an Atiyah-Hitchin submanifold of the 3-monopole moduli space. This allows what is known about 2-monopole dynamics to be translated into results about the dynamics of 3-monopoles. Using a numerical ADHMN construction we compute the monopole energy density at various points on two interesting geodesics. The first is a geodesic over the two-dimensional rounded cone submanifold corresponding to right angle scattering and the second is a closed geodesic for three orbiting monopoles.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1609-1622
Number of pages15
JournalNonlinearity
Volume9
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Sept 1996

Bibliographical note

latex, 22 pages, 2 figures. To appear in Nonlinearity

Keywords

  • hep-th

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