Hyper-Kähler metrics and a generalization of the Bogomolny equations (Q1105206)

The authors present an interesting generalization of the Bogomolny equations, which describe a monopole in 3 dimensions, to 3n dimensions. A twistor correspondence for solutions of these equations is described with the twistor space being the total space of the direct sum of n copies of the tangent space of 1 dimensional complex projective space, \({\mathbb{C}}P^ 1.\) When the group occuring in the equations is an n dimensional torus this correspondence yields interesting holomorphic bundles over \({\mathbb{C}}P^ 1\). These are shown to be the twistor spaces of a hyper-Kähler manifold in dimension 4m invariant under an action of the torus. The authors show that all such hyper-Kähler manifolds arise in this way.