Deformation theory of periodic monopoles (with singularities) (Q906917)

The main result of this paper is Theorem 1.4. For generic choices of the parameters defining the boundary conditions, the moduli space \(\mathcal{M}_{n, k}\) of charge-\(k\) \(\mathrm{SO}(3)\) periodic monopoles with \(n\) isolated singularities is a smooth hyper-Kähler manifold of dimension \(4k-4\), provided it is not empty. Here, the charge is a certain topological invariant of a monopole. The final section contains the proof of the dimension formula, i.e., the computation of the index of a certain Dirac-type operator.