Some characterizations of Dirac type singularity of monopoles (Q2411637)

The authors study singular monopoles on open subsets of \(3\)-dimensional Euclidean space and give two characterisations of Dirac type singularities. The first characterisation is given in terms of the growth order of the norms of sections invariant under the scattering map (Theorem 1/Theorem 4). The second characterisation (Theorem 2/Theorem 3) is given in terms of the growth order of the norms of the Higgs field. Theorem 2 is established using a deep result on the Dirichlet problem for instantons (see [\textit{S. K. Donaldson}, J. Geom. Phys. 8, No. 1--4, 89--122 (1992; Zbl 0747.53022)]) and as the authors note, the first characterisation is a direct consequence of the second characterisation.